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title: Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some tim… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some time he again met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye. Who acts: Minnikin, old old backed hag. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 92

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Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some time he again met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin, old old backed hag · **What happens:** go, wander, meet, back, have · **To what, where:** old old backed hag, one eye

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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 (Minnikin, old old backed hag), 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:pg540:44:92
# text = Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some time he again met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	crook	crook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Minnikin |  |  |  | then | onwards *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past · perfect | MINNIKIN |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past | MINNIKIN | a old old backed hag |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | a old old backed hag | one eye |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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