The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 103

Then all that Minnikin had asked for was brought; and first he ordered them to lay the cable in the ship, but there was no one who was able to lift it, and there was only room for one or two men at a time in the little bit of a ship.

Who acts: Minnikin, one · What happens: ask, bring, order, lay, be, lift · To what, where: jokes, cable, ship, room

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, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Minnikin	det
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Minnikin	det
4	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 room	advcl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 brought	mark
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux:pass
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asked	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ordered	cc
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 ordered	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	nsubj
14	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lay	mark
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ordered	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cable	det
19	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 ship	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ship	det
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 able	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 one	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 lift	mark
33	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lift	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 was	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 was	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 room	cop
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 room	advmod
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
41	for	for	ADP	_	45 men	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 men	nummod
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 two	cc
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 one	conj
45	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 room	nmod
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 time	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 time	det
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 men	nmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 bit	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bit	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 bit	amod
52	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 time	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 ship	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 ship	det
55	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bit	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 room	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	all Minnikin					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	past · passive	all Minnikin not said here					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»
3	order	past	Minnikin		jokes = joke		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	lay	to-infinitive	Minnikin not said here	the cable		the ship		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cable=Theme in ship=Destination
5	be	past	no one			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	no one				able property	tree rules
7	lift	to-infinitive	no one not said here	ship				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	is a	past		room			for one men at a time in the little bit of a ship	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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