The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 40

‘Oh, it shall taste well,’ said Minnikin, and at once set himself to work to brew.

Who acts: ale, Minnikin · What happens: taste, say, set, work, brew · To what, where: Minnikin · 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 (ale, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 taste	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 taste	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taste	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 taste	aux
6	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 taste	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taste	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 taste	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 set	obl
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 set	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 brew	mark
21	brew	brew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 work	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	taste	shall	ale		well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set	past	Minnikin not said here	Minnikin		tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Minnikin not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	brew	to-infinitive	Minnikin not said here			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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