The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 52

But now Minnikin was not happy, for both the Princesses wanted to have him, and he wanted to have none other than the one whom he had first saved, and she was the younger.

Who acts: Minnikin, Princesses, Princess · What happens: not be, want, have, save, be · To what, where: Minnikin, none

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, Princesses, Princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 happy	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happy	advmod
3	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 Princesses	cc:preconj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princesses	det
11	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanted	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 have	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 none	amod
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 one	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 other	obl
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 one	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saved	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saved	aux
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 saved	advmod
31	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 whom	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 younger	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 younger	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 younger	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 younger	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 younger	det
37	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 wanted	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Minnikin		now	happy property	tree rules
2	want	past	the Princesses				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Princesses not said here	Minnikin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	want	past	Minnikin				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Minnikin not said here	none			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
6	save	past · perfect	Minnikin			first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is not said to happen	past	Princess			young 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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