The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 83

Then Minnikin ran back to the King’s palace as he had done before, but first he went on board the Troll’s ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things, and out of these he once more gave to the kitchen-maid a whole armful of gold and silver hoops.

Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: run back, do, go, take, give · To what, where: ship, great quantity, whole armful, kitchen maid, these

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 done	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
14	before	before	ADV	_	13 done	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 went	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	25 ship	case
21	board	board	ADP	_	25 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Troll	det
23	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ship	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Troll	case
25	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 quantity	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 quantity	amod
30	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 gold	case
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 quantity	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 silver	cc
34	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 quantity	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 things	cc
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
37	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 quantity	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gave	cc
41	out	out	ADP	_	43 these	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 these	case
43	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 gave	obl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 gave	nsubj
45	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 gave	advmod
46	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 gave	advmod
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 maid	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 maid	det
50	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 maid	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 kitchen	punct
52	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 armful	det
54	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 armful	amod
55	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 gold	case
57	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 armful	nmod
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 hoops	cc
59	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hoops	compound
60	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 gold	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	past	Minnikin				then	to the King's palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result
2	do	past · perfect	Minnikin					before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Minnikin			the Troll's ship		first property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location
4	take	past	Minnikin not said here	a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
5	give	past	Minnikin	a whole armful of gold and silver hoops	the kitchen maid	these		once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent armful=Theme to maid=Recipient

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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