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description: When Minnikin went up to the King’s palace he saw that everything there was hung with black both outside and inside, from the bottom to the top; so he asked the kitchen-maid what that meant. Who acts: Minnikin, that. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its d
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 1

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When Minnikin went up to the King’s palace he saw that everything there was hung with black both outside and inside, from the bottom to the top; so he asked the kitchen-maid what that meant.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin, that · **What happens:** go up, see, hang, ask, mean · **To what, where:** everything, bottom, kitchen maid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, that), 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:pg540:45:1
# text = When Minnikin went up to the King’s palace he saw that everything there was hung with black both outside and inside, from the bottom to the top; so he asked the kitchen-maid what that meant.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	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	11	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	obj	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
40	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Minnikin |  |  |  |  | to the King's palace | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | past | Minnikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang** | past · passive |  | everything |  | the bottom to the top |  | with black; outside *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with black=Instrument |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Minnikin |  | the kitchen maid |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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