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title: But while they were running down from the King’s palace, Minnikin ha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But while they were running down from the King’s palace, Minnikin had got out of the ship and had put it in his pocket again; for the moment he got out of it, it once more became as small as it had been when he got it from the old woman, and those who came from the King’s palace could see nothing bu
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 107

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But while they were running down from the King’s palace, Minnikin had got out of the ship and had put it in his pocket again; for the moment he got out of it, it once more became as small as it had been when he got it from the old woman, and those who came from the King’s palace could see nothing but a ragged little boy who was standing down by the sea-shore.

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**Who acts:** persons, Minnikin, ship, those, ragged little boy · **What happens:** run down, get out, put, become, be, come · **To what, where:** palace, ship, pocket, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons, Minnikin, ship, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:44:107
# text = But while they were running down from the King’s palace, Minnikin had got out of the ship and had put it in his pocket again; for the moment he got out of it, it once more became as small as it had been when he got it from the old woman, and those who came from the King’s palace could see nothing but a ragged little boy who was standing down by the sea-shore.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
47	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	cop	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
58	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	67	nsubj	_	_
59	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
61	from	from	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	’s	's	PART	POS	_	63	case	_	_
65	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
66	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
68	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	67	obj	_	_
69	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
71	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
72	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	_
74	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	76	nsubj	_	_
75	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
76	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	73	acl:relcl	_	_
77	down	down	ADP	RP	_	76	compound:prt	_	_
78	by	by	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
79	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
80	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	80	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past · progressive | persons *= person* |  |  | the King's palace |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from palace=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get out** | past · perfect | Minnikin | the ship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past · perfect | Minnikin *not said here* | ship |  | MINNIKIN's pocket | again |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 4 | **get out** | past | MINNIKIN |  |  |  | moment | of ship; out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 5 | **become** | past | ship |  |  |  |  | once, small *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | ship |  |  |  |  | from the old woman; get *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the King's palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **see** | could | those | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 9 | **stand down** | past · progressive | a ragged little boy |  |  |  |  | by the sea shore | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shore=Location |

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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.

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**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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