The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 95
So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to have the Princess, and half the kingdom.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: throw, have · To what, where: Ritter, snake pit, Princess
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 2 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ritter | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pit | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 snake | punct |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 13 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thrown | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kingdom | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kingdom | cc |
| 21 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 23 kingdom | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | Ritter | into the snake pit result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into pit=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Minnikin | the Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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