The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 101
‘But I have a ship of my own,’ said Minnikin, and he took the one which the old woman had given him out of his pocket.
Who acts: I, Minnikin · What happens: have, say, take, give · To what, where: ship, one, old woman, Minnikin, pocket · 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 (I, Minnikin), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 own | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ship | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 given | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 given | iobj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pocket | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pocket | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 30 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | obl | ||
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a ship of my own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Minnikin | the one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | Minnikin | Minnikin's pocket | tree rules |
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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