The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 82

The miller thought she must mean one of his puppies or kittens, so promised the nixy at once what she asked, and returned to his mill full of hope.

Who acts: miller, NIXY · What happens: think, mean, promise, ask, return · To what, where: one, nixy · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mean	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 puppies	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 puppies	nmod:poss
10	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 kittens	cc
12	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 puppies	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 promised	advmod
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nixy	det
17	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 promised	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 promised	obl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 promised	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 returned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 returned	cc
25	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 mill	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mill	nmod:poss
28	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 returned	obl
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mill	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 hope	case
31	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 full	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the miller			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	must	NIXY	one of miller's puppies or kittens		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	past	the miller not said here	the nixy		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent nixy=Goal what=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	NIXY			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	return	past	the miller not said here		to miller's mill result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mill=Result

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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