The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 210

“She’s only a miller’s daughter, it’s true,” he thought; “but I couldn’t find a richer wife if I were to search the whole world over.”

Who acts: it, miller, daughter · What happens: be, think, not find, search · To what, where: richer wife, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, miller, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ’s	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	csubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 daughter	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 miller	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 true	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 true	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 find	advmod
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 true	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wife	det
25	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 wife	amod
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 search	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 search	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 search	aux
30	to	to	PART	_	31 search	mark
31	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 find	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 world	amod
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 search	obj
35	over	over	ADV	_	31 search	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it		true property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	miller			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not find in a quote	could	the miller's daughter = daughter	a richer wife		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
4	search a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the miller's daughter = daughter	the whole world	over property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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