The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 12

The man said, ‘I don’t know what is turning those windmills; there is not the slightest breeze blowing.’

Who acts: man, I, slightest breeze · What happens: say, not know, turn, not be, blow · To what, where: windmills · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, I, slightest breeze), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 turning	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turning	aux
12	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 know	ccomp
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 windmills	det
14	windmills	windmill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turning	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 blowing	advcl
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 is	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 breeze	det
20	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 breeze	amod
21	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blowing	nsubj
22	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 blowing	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 blowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	turn	present · progressive		that windmills		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent windmill=Theme
4	not be	present	the slightest breeze not said here		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	blow	gerund	the slightest breeze			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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