The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 74

But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a sudden became so poor that at last he could hardly call the mill in which he sat his own.

Who acts: sorrow, miller · What happens: come, become, call, sit · To what, where: mill, own · 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 (sorrow, miller), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 comes	cc
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 miller	det
10	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 miller	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sudden	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sudden	det
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 all	nmod
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 poor	advmod
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 call	mark
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 call	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 call	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 call	aux
23	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	24 call	advmod
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 poor	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mill	det
26	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 call	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sat	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 mill	acl:relcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 own	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sat	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	sorrow			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the miller				poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	call	could	miller	the mill			at last; hardly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent mill=Theme at last=Stimulus
4	sit	past	miller	miller's own	the mill			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent own=Theme in which=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 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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