The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 15
Minnikin promised this, and ran down to the sea-shore.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: promise, run down · To what, where: this
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), 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 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 promised | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shore | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Minnikin | this | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run down | past | Minnikin not said here | to the sea shore result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shore=Result |
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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