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title: “And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best machinery and gets plenty of corn to grind is so poor that he can hardly live from day to day?” Who acts: face, miller. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 116

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“And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best machinery and gets plenty of corn to grind is so poor that he can hardly live from day to day?”

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**Who acts:** face, miller · **What happens:** be, have, get, grind, live · **To what, where:** large mill, plenty

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (face, miller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:2:116
# text = “And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best machinery and gets plenty of corn to grind is so poor that he can hardly live from day to day?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	machinery	machinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | face |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a miller | a large mill |  |  |  | with all best machinery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present | a miller *not said here* | plenty of corn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grind** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a miller *not said here* | plenty of corn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a miller |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | can | miller |  |  |  | day | hardly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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