The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 93
So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs and tongue, and Minnikin went and brought all the gold and silver and precious things which he had taken out of the Trolls’ ships; and they each of them laid these tokens before the King.
Who acts: Ritter, Minnikin, Trolls · What happens: run off, go, bring, take out, lay · To what, where: gold, precious things, ships, tokens
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 (Ritter, Minnikin, Trolls), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ritter | flat |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 handkerchief | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 10 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lungs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lungs | det |
| 13 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 handkerchief | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tongue | cc |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lungs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 gold | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gold | det |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 silver | cc |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gold | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 things | cc |
| 28 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gold | conj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 taken | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 things | acl:relcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 ships | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ships | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Trolls | det |
| 37 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ships | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 37 Trolls | case |
| 39 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 taken | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 laid | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 laid | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 laid | nsubj |
| 43 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 laid | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 each | nmod |
| 46 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 47 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 48 tokens | det |
| 48 | tokens | token | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 laid | obj |
| 49 | before | before | ADP | _ | 51 King | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 King | det |
| 51 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 laid | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Ritter | for Ritter's handkerchief with the lungs and tongue | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Minnikin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | Minnikin not said here | all gold and silver and precious things | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take out | past · perfect · passive | precious things | the Trolls's ships | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lay | past | Trolls = troll | this tokens | before the King | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent token=Theme before king=Destination |
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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