The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 80

When the miller heard how friendly her tone was, he plucked up heart and told her how rich and prosperous he had been all his life up till now, when he didn’t know what he was to do for want and misery.

Who acts: miller, tone, despair · What happens: hear, be, pluck up, tell, have up, not know · To what, where: heart, despair, life · 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, tone, despair), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plucked	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 friendly	advmod
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tone	nmod:poss
8	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friendly	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 friendly	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plucked	nsubj
12	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 plucked	compound:prt
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plucked	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plucked	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 rich	advmod
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prosperous	cc
21	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rich	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	ccomp
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 all	cop
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 life	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	23 had	compound:prt
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 now	case
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 had	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 know	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	parataxis
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 do	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 do	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	ccomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 want	case
43	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 do	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 misery	cc
45	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 want	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the miller				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	despair's tone			friendly property	tree rules
3	pluck up	past	miller	heart			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	miller not said here		despair	rich property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have up	past	miller	miller's life			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
6	not know	past · do-support	miller				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is	past	miller			for want and misery; do property	tree rules
8	intonate		despair				nom tone «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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