The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 100

This eye also Minnikin stole, and when the woman screamed and lamented, and asked what had become of her eye, Minnikin said, ‘What will you give me to get your eye back?’

Who acts: eye, woman, Minnikin, you · What happens: steal, scream, lament, ask, become, say · To what, where: me, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (eye, woman, Minnikin, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 stole	advmod
4	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 screamed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 screamed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 screamed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 screamed	nsubj
11	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stole	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lamented	cc
13	lamented	lament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 screamed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stole	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 become	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 asked	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 eye	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eye	nmod:poss
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stole	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
28	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 give	obj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 get	mark
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 give	advcl
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eye	nmod:poss
36	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	34 get	advmod
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	steal	past	this eye				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	participle	the woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lament	participle	the woman not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	ask speech: ask	past	this eye not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	become	past · perfect				of woman's eye	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	give	future	you		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
8	get back	to-infinitive	you not said here	your eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus

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.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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