The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 99

‘I may as well make the attempt,’ said Minnikin, ‘but I must have an iron rope which is five hundred ells long, and then I must have five hundred men with me, and provisions for five weeks, for I have a long voyage before me.’

Who acts: I, Minnikin, iron rope · What happens: make, say, have, be · To what, where: attempt, provisions, iron rope, hundred men, long voyage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Minnikin, iron rope), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 make	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 attempt	det
8	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rope	det
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rope	compound
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 long	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 long	cop
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 hundred	compound
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 ells	nummod
26	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 long	obl:unmarked
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rope	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 have	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	parataxis
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hundred	compound
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 men	nummod
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 provisions	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 provisions	cc
41	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 weeks	case
43	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 weeks	nummod
44	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 provisions	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 have	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 voyage	det
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 voyage	amod
51	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
52	before	before	ADP	_	53 me	case
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 have	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	may	I	the attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin	provisions for five weeks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	must	I	a iron rope			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
4	is	present	a iron rope			hundred ells obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
5	have	must	I	hundred men	then	with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
6	have	present	I	a long voyage	before me		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=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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