The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 84
‘In that case we shall not see each other for some time,’ said Minnikin; so they bade farewell to each other, and Minnikin went east and King Pippin went west.
Who acts: we, Minnikin, feathers, King · What happens: not see, say, bade, go · To what, where: each, case · 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 (we, Minnikin, feathers, King), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bade | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 bade | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bade | nsubj |
| 21 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 22 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 21 bade | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 21 bade | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 28 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 30 | east | east | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 went | nsubj |
| 33 | Pippin | Pippin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 King | flat |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | conj |
| 35 | west | west | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | we | each | that case | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bade | past | feathers = feather | to each; farewell property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Minnikin | east property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | King | west property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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