The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 55
Minnikin, however, took home with him an armful of gold and silver hoops from the Troll’s ship.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: take · To what, where: armful
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 | 5 took | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Minnikin | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 armful | det |
| 10 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 armful | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hoops | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoops | compound |
| 15 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gold | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Troll | det |
| 18 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ship | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Troll | case |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoops | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Minnikin | a armful of gold and silver hoops from the Troll's ship | with Red; home, however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armful=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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