The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 96
One day the King went out walking with Minnikin, and Minnikin asked him if he had never had any other children.
Who acts: King, Minnikin · What happens: go out, walk, ask, not have · To what, where: King, other children
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 (King, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Minnikin | case |
| 9 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 12 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 children | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 children | amod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the King | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the King not said here | with Minnikin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Minnikin | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not have a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Minnikin | any other children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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