The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 33

‘Oh,’ answered Minnikin, ‘I have been home a while, and these hoops had fallen off some of our buckets, so I brought them away with me for you.’

Who acts: I, hoops · What happens: answer, be, fall off, bring away · To what, where: Minnikin, while, some, hoops

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, hoops), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 while	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 while	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 while	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 while	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 while	cop
12	home	home	ADV	_	14 while	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fallen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fallen	cc
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 hoops	det
18	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fallen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fallen	aux
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 answered	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	22 some	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 fallen	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 buckets	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 buckets	nmod:poss
25	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 some	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 brought	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 brought	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Minnikin		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent minnikin=Eventuality
2	is a	present · perfect	I	a while		home property	tree rules
3	fall off	past · perfect	this hoops	some			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient some=Extent
4	bring away	past	I	hoops = hoop		with me; for you; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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