The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 106

After a couple of days the miller came and said that he must tell him that the old donkey which was to have three beatings and only one meal had died.

Who acts: miller, old donkey, one meal · What happens: come, say, tell, have, die · To what, where: Hunter, three beatings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, old donkey, one meal), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 couple	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 couple	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 tell	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 donkey	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 donkey	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 donkey	amod
19	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	ccomp
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 donkey	acl:relcl
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 beatings	nummod
25	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 died	cc
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 meal	nummod
29	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 died	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 died	aux
31	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the miller			after a couple of days	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	must	miller		Hunter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	have	past	the old donkey	three beatings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Patient
5	die	past · perfect	one meal				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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