The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 17

So the King’s daughter told Minnikin that the Troll was out trying to get hold of someone who could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing, for there was to be a feast at the Troll’s, at which less than that would not be drunk.

Who acts: daughter, Troll, hundred, feast, that · What happens: tell, try, get, brew, last, be · To what, where: Minnikin, hold, feast, Troll, someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Troll, hundred, feast), 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	_	6 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 trying	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Troll	det
10	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 trying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trying	aux
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 was	compound:prt
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 someone	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 hold	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 brew	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 brew	aux
21	brew	brew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 someone	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hundred	det
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 lasts	nsubj
24	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 brew	ccomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 malt	case
26	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lasts	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 brewing	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 brewing	nummod
29	brewing	brewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 malt	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 was	mark
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	37 feast	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 feast	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 feast	det
37	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 Troll	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Troll	det
40	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 feast	nmod
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Troll	case
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 less	punct
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 less	nsubj
45	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 feast	parataxis
46	than	than	SCONJ	_	51 drunk	mark
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 drunk	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 drunk	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 drunk	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 drunk	cop
51	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 less	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the King's daughter		Minnikin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent minnikin=Recipient
2	try	past · progressive	the Troll					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Troll not said here	hold of someone				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
4	brew	could						tree rules
5	last	present	a hundred				of malt at one brewing	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	a feast			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive		a feast		the Troll		tree rules
8	not is	would	that				drunk property	tree rules
9	hold			someone				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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