The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 1

When Minnikin went up to the King’s palace he saw that everything there was hung with black both outside and inside, from the bottom to the top; so he asked the kitchen-maid what that meant.

Who acts: Minnikin, that · What happens: go up, see, hang, ask, mean · To what, where: everything, bottom, kitchen maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Minnikin, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 hung	mark
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 hung	nsubj:pass
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 everything	advmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hung	aux:pass
16	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 black	case
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hung	obl
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 outside	cc:preconj
20	outside	outside	ADV	_	16 hung	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 inside	cc
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	20 outside	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bottom	punct
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottom	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 asked	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 asked	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asked	nsubj
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 maid	det
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 maid	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 kitchen	punct
37	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asked	obj
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 meant	obj
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 meant	nsubj
40	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 asked	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Minnikin				to the King's palace	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	see	past	Minnikin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hang	past · passive		everything		the bottom to the top	with black; outside property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with black=Instrument
4	ask speech: ask	past	Minnikin		the kitchen maid			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic
5	mean	past	that					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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