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title: He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his ans… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his answer, and by-and-by he told the three sisters not to throw out all their sweepings in the face of the sun. Who acts: Luck, sisters. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its depen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 128

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He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his answer, and by-and-by he told the three sisters not to throw out all their sweepings in the face of the sun.

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**Who acts:** Luck, sisters · **What happens:** spend, give, tell, not throw out, answer, sweep · **To what, where:** mill, miller, three sisters, sweepings, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Luck, sisters), 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:pg2435:2:128
# text = He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his answer, and by-and-by he told the three sisters not to throw out all their sweepings in the face of the sun.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	iobj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Luck |  |  | the mill | night | once *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Luck *not said here* | the miller |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient answer=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Luck |  | the three sisters |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **throw out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | sisters's sweepings |  | the face of the sun. |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sweeping=Theme in face=Destination |
| 5 | **answer** |  | Luck |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sweep** |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  | the face of the sun. |  |  | nom sweeping «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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