The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 73

There was once upon a time a miller who was very well off, and had as much money and as many goods as he knew what to do with.

Who acts: miller, Kletke · What happens: be, have, know, do · To what, where: much money · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, Kletke), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 off	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 off	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 off	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 off	advmod
13	off	off	ADV	_	6 time	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 money	amod
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 goods	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 goods	amod
23	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 money	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 do	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knew	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	29 do	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a miller				off, well property	tree rules
3	have	past		much money and many goods				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	know	past	Kletke					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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