The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 36
When Minnikin came, the Troll asked if it were true that he could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing.
Who acts: Minnikin, Troll, hundred · What happens: come, ask, be, brew, last · To what, where: one brewing
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 (Minnikin, Troll, hundred), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Troll | det |
| 6 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 true | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 brew | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brew | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 brew | aux |
| 15 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 true | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 lasts | nsubj |
| 18 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 brew | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 malt | case |
| 20 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lasts | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 brewing | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brewing | nummod |
| 23 | brewing | brewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lasts | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Minnikin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Troll | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | hundred | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | brew | could | Troll | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | last | present | a hundred | one brewing | of malt | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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