The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 79

While he hesitated the nixy spoke, called him by his name, and asked him why he was so sad.

Who acts: miller, nixy · What happens: hesitate, speak, call, ask, be, name · To what, where: nixy, miller · 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, nixy), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 hesitated	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hesitated	nsubj
3	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nixy	det
5	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hesitated	obj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nixy	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nixy	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hesitated	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sad	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sad	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sad	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 sad	advmod
21	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 asked	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hesitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	miller	the nixy			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	the nixy not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle		the nixy not said here	miller	by miller's name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	ask speech: ask	past	miller not said here		miller		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	past	miller			sad property	tree rules
6	name		miller				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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