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title: But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a sudden became… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a sudden became so poor that at last he could hardly call the mill in which he sat his own. Who acts: sorrow, miller. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 74

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But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a sudden became so poor that at last he could hardly call the mill in which he sat his own.

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**Who acts:** sorrow, miller · **What happens:** come, become, call, sit · **To what, where:** mill, own · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, 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:pg640:20:74
# text = But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a sudden became so poor that at last he could hardly call the mill in which he sat his own.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | sorrow |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the miller |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | could | miller | the mill |  |  |  | at last; hardly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent mill=Theme at last=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** | past | miller | miller's own |  | the mill |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent own=Theme in which=Location |

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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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