The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 41

‘But I must have more trolls to help to carry what is wanted,’ said Minnikin; ‘these that I have are good for nothing.’

Who acts: I, more trolls, Minnikin, these · What happens: have, help, carry, want, say, be · To what, where: more trolls · 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 (I, more trolls, Minnikin, these), 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	_	5 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 trolls	amod
7	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trolls	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 carry	mark
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	xcomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 wanted	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	aux:pass
14	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 carry	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 good	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 have	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 these	acl:relcl
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 good	cop
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 nothing	case
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 good	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	must	I	more trolls		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	I not said here	more trolls not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	carry	to-infinitive	more trolls not said here			tree rules
4	want	present · passive				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
7	is	present	these		for nothing; good property	tree rules

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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