The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 55
As soon as this thought occurred to him he went outside the palace and called for King Pippin, but no one came.
Who acts: Minnikin, one · What happens: occur, go, call, come · To what, where: Minnikin, palace · 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 (Minnikin, one), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 thought | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | det |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occurred | obl |
| 6 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 occurred | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | parataxis |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Pippin | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pippin | compound |
| 18 | Pippin | Pippin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | Minnikin | as this thought; soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Minnikin | the palace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | Minnikin not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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