The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 84

The poor miller was much horrified by these tidings, and went in to his wife with a heavy heart to tell her and his relations of the fatal bargain he had just struck with the nixy.

Who acts: tidings, miller · What happens: horrify, go in, tell, strike · To what, where: poor miller, wife, fatal bargain · 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 (tidings, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miller	amod
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horrified	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horrified	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 horrified	advmod
6	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 tidings	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 tidings	det
9	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horrified	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horrified	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 heart	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heart	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heart	amod
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 relations	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 relations	nmod:poss
26	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 bargain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bargain	det
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bargain	amod
30	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 relations	nmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 struck	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 struck	aux
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 struck	advmod
34	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 bargain	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 nixy	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 nixy	det
37	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 horrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	horrify	past · passive	this tidings	the poor miller			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	go in	past	this tidings not said here			to miller's wife with a heavy heart	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	this tidings not said here		wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	strike	past · perfect	miller	the fatal bargain not said here		with the nixy	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient with nixy=Instrument

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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