The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 214

“Who knows what may not happen before that?” thought the miller’s daughter; and besides, she saw no other way out of it, so she promised the manikin what he demanded, and he set to work once more and spun the straw into gold.

Who acts: daughter, manikin · What happens: know, not happen, think, beside, see, promise · To what, where: that, daughter, other way, manikin, straw, gold · 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 (daughter, manikin), 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 knows	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happen	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 happen	advmod
7	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	ccomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 happen	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 miller	det
14	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 miller	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 besides	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 besides	cc
19	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 besides	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 way	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 it	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 promised	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 promised	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 promised	nsubj
32	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 manikin	det
34	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 promised	obj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 promised	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 demanded	nsubj
37	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 set	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 set	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 set	nsubj
41	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 besides	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 work	mark
43	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 set	xcomp
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 more	advmod
45	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 work	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 spun	cc
47	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 set	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 straw	det
49	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spun	obj
50	into	into	ADP	_	51 gold	case
51	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spun	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not happen in a quote	may			that		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before that=Location
3	think speech: other	past		the miller's daughter			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beside	present					tree rules
5	see	past	daughter	no other way		out child	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
6	promise speech: promise	past	daughter	the manikin			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Goal what=Theme
7	demand speech: request	past	manikin				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	set	past	manikin				tree rules
9	work	to-infinitive	manikin not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	spin	past	manikin not said here	the straw	gold		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory

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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