The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 9
In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to give him leave to go down to the strand for a short time.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: beg, give, leave, go down · To what, where: meantime, Minnikin
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | obl |
| 4 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maid | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 kitchen | punct |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prettily | nsubj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 prettily | advmod |
| 11 | prettily | prettily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 begged | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 prettily | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 strand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strand | det |
| 21 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Minnikin | the meantime | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Minnikin not said here | Minnikin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Minnikin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go down | to-infinitive | Minnikin not said here | time | to the strand; 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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