The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 98
So the old woman gave him a little bit of a ship which was no bigger than he could put in his pocket, and then she got her eye back, and she went her way and Minnikin his.
Who acts: old woman, little bit, MINNIKIN, woman · What happens: give, not be, put, get back, go · To what, where: bigger, MINNIKIN, pocket, eye, way
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 (old woman, little bit, MINNIKIN, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bit | amod |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bigger | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bigger | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bigger | cop |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 bigger | advmod |
| 16 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 gave | iobj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bigger | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl | ||
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 got | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 got | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 got | nsubj |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eye | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 got | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 went | nsubj |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Minnikin | cc |
| 39 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 way | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 went | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old woman | bigger | MINNIKIN | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient big=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | past | a little bit of a ship | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | could | MINNIKIN | MINNIKIN's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination | ||||
| 4 | get back | past | woman | woman's eye | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | go | past | woman | woman's way and Minnikin | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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