The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 58

‘I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmost need,’ he said to Minnikin, ‘and there is not even so much as a midge here who can do you any harm!’ and with that he gave Minnikin such a blow that he rolled over on the grass.

Who acts: I, you, Minnikin · What happens: tell, not call, be, say, do, give · To what, where: you, me, utmost need, Minnikin, blow, grass · 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, you, 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 call	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 call	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 call	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 call	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 call	mark
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 call	obj
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	18 need	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 need	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 need	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 need	det
17	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 need	amod
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Minnikin	case
24	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 much	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Minnikin	punct
26	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 is	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 much	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 is	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 midge	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 midge	det
36	midge	midge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 much	nmod
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 much	advmod
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 do	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 much	parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 do	obj
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 harm	det
43	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 do	obj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 much	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 much	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 gave	cc
47	with	with	SCONJ	_	50 gave	mark
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 gave	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 gave	nsubj
50	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
51	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 gave	iobj
52	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	54 blow	det:predet
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 blow	det
54	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 gave	obj
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 rolled	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 rolled	nsubj
57	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 gave	advcl
58	over	over	ADV	_	57 rolled	advmod
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 grass	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 grass	det
61	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 rolled	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not call not said to happen	past	you		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you			the utmost need		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present			Minnikin	here	as a midge; much property	tree rules
6	do	can		you				tree rules
7	give	past	Minnikin	such blow	Minnikin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent minnikin=Recipient blow=Theme
8	roll over	past	Minnikin			the grass	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory

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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