The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 104
Then Minnikin said: ‘Now go over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales, and do not stop until thou comest to the King’s palace.’
Who acts: Minnikin, thou · What happens: say, go over, not stop, come · To what, where: fresh water, high hills, palace · 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 (Minnikin, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 fresh | advmod |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | compound |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hills | punct |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 hills | case |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hills | amod |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dales | cc |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dales | amod |
| 20 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hills | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stop | cc |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 stop | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 stop | advmod |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 comest | mark |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 comest | nsubj |
| 28 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stop | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 palace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comest | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go over | infinitive | fresh water and salt water | high hills and deep dales | now | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 3 | not stop | infinitive · do-support | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | come | present | thou | the King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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