The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 38
Minnikin once more begged the cook’s leave to go down to the sea-shore for a short time.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: beg, go down · To what, where: leave · 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 (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 | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 begged | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 begged | advmod |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cook | det |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 cook | case |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Minnikin | the cook's leave | once property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go down not said to happen | to-infinitive | time | to the sea shore; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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