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title: When the miller heard how friendly her tone was, he plucked up heart… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the miller heard how friendly her tone was, he plucked up heart and told her how rich and prosperous he had been all his life up till now, when he didn’t know what he was to do for want and misery. Who acts: miller, tone, despair. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Me
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 80

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When the miller heard how friendly her tone was, he plucked up heart and told her how rich and prosperous he had been all his life up till now, when he didn’t know what he was to do for want and misery.

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**Who acts:** miller, tone, despair · **What happens:** hear, be, pluck up, tell, have up, not know · **To what, where:** heart, despair, life · **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 (miller, tone, despair), 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:pg640:20:80
# text = When the miller heard how friendly her tone was, he plucked up heart and told her how rich and prosperous he had been all his life up till now, when he didn’t know what he was to do for want and misery.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	41	obj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | despair's tone |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pluck up** | past | miller | heart |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | miller *not said here* |  | despair |  |  | rich *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have up** | past | miller | miller's life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | miller |  |  |  |  | for want and misery; do *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **intonate** |  | despair |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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