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title: “Who knows what may not happen before that?” thought the miller’s da… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who knows what may not happen before that?” thought the miller’s daughter; and besides, she saw no other way out of it, so she promised the manikin what he demanded, and he set to work once more and spun the straw into gold. Who acts: daughter, manikin. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 214

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“Who knows what may not happen before that?” thought the miller’s daughter; and besides, she saw no other way out of it, so she promised the manikin what he demanded, and he set to work once more and spun the straw into gold.

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**Who acts:** daughter, manikin · **What happens:** know, not happen, think, beside, see, promise · **To what, where:** that, daughter, other way, manikin, straw, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, manikin), 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:pg503:13:214
# text = “Who knows what may not happen before that?” thought the miller’s daughter; and besides, she saw no other way out of it, so she promised the manikin what he demanded, and he set to work once more and spun the straw into gold.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	advmod	_	_
45	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **happen** *in a quote* | may |  |  |  | that |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before that=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the miller's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beside** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | daughter | no other way |  |  |  | out child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | daughter | the manikin |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Goal what=Theme |
| 7 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | manikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **set** | past | manikin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **work** | to-infinitive | manikin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **spin** | past | manikin *not said here* | the straw |  | gold |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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