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title: He replied, ‘Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He replied, ‘Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills; see, I am blowing to drive them round.’ Who acts: man, Two miles, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 15

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He replied, ‘Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills; see, I am blowing to drive them round.’

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**Who acts:** man, Two miles, I · **What happens:** reply, stand, see, blow, drive · **To what, where:** seven windmills, miles

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Two miles, I), 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:pg640:19:15
# text = He replied, ‘Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills; see, I am blowing to drive them round.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	windmills	windmill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present · progressive | Two miles from this place | seven windmills |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer windmill=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **blow** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | miles *= mile* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=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 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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