The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 102

The King laughed at him and thought that it was only one of his jokes, but Minnikin begged him just to give him what he had asked for, and then he should see something.

Who acts: King, ship, Minnikin · What happens: laugh, think, be, beg, give, ask · To what, where: one, King, Minnikin, something · 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 (King, ship, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 one	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thought	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 jokes	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 jokes	nmod:poss
15	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
18	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 give	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 give	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 asked	aux
28	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	28 asked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 see	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	conj
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 see	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the King				at Minnikin	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the King not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	ship	one			of Minnikin's jokes	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	Minnikin		King			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive			Minnikin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	Minnikin					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	should	Minnikin	something		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
8	joke		Minnikin					nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/45/102/