The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 31
As for Minnikin, first he went out on the Troll’s ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver hoops away with him, and then he trotted back to the King’s palace.
Who acts: Ritter, silver · What happens: go out, take, hoop away, trot back · To what, where: ship, great quantity, palace
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 (Ritter, silver), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Minnikin | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minnikin | punct |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Troll | det |
| 11 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Troll | case |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 quantity | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 quantity | amod |
| 18 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quantity | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hoops | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hoops | nsubj |
| 23 | hoops | hoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 hoops | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hoops | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 trotted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 trotted | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 trotted | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 trotted | nsubj |
| 31 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 trotted | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 palace | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 King | case |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 trotted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Ritter | the Troll's ship | as Minnikin; first property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | Ritter not said here | a great quantity of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hoop away | present | silver | with Ritter; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trot back | past | Ritter | the King's palace | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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