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title: Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable, and laid one or two li… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable, and laid one or two links of it into the ship, and as he threw the links into it the ship grew bigger and bigger, and at last it was so large that the cable, and the five hundred men, and provisions, and Minnikin himself, had room enough. Who acts: Minni
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 104

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Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable, and laid one or two links of it into the ship, and as he threw the links into it the ship grew bigger and bigger, and at last it was so large that the cable, and the five hundred men, and provisions, and Minnikin himself, had room enough.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin, ship · **What happens:** take, lay, throw, grow, be, have · **To what, where:** hold, one links, ship, links, last, room

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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, ship), 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:pg540:45:104
# text = Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable, and laid one or two links of it into the ship, and as he threw the links into it the ship grew bigger and bigger, and at last it was so large that the cable, and the five hundred men, and provisions, and Minnikin himself, had room enough.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	obl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	compound	_	_
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
58	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
59	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	58	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
61	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
62	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
63	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Minnikin  Minnikin | hold of the cable |  |  | then | provisions *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hold=Theme man=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Minnikin  Minnikin *not said here* | one links of cable |  | the ship |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Result |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Minnikin | the links |  | ship |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer link=Theme into it=Result |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the ship |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | ship |  |  | last |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | Minnikin  Minnikin | room |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | the cable |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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