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title: Then Minnikin ran back to the King’s palace as he had done before, b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Minnikin ran back to the King’s palace as he had done before, but first he went on board the Troll’s ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things, and out of these he once more gave to the kitchen-maid a whole armful of gold and silver hoops. Who acts: Minnikin. A
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 83

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Then Minnikin ran back to the King’s palace as he had done before, but first he went on board the Troll’s ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things, and out of these he once more gave to the kitchen-maid a whole armful of gold and silver hoops.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin · **What happens:** run back, do, go, take, give · **To what, where:** ship, great quantity, whole armful, kitchen maid, these

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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), 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:pg540:45:83
# text = Then Minnikin ran back to the King’s palace as he had done before, but first he went on board the Troll’s ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things, and out of these he once more gave to the kitchen-maid a whole armful of gold and silver hoops.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
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	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	board	board	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	47	advmod	_	_
46	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
47	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	armful	armful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | past | Minnikin |  |  |  | then | to the King's palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Minnikin |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Minnikin |  |  | the Troll's ship |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | Minnikin *not said here* | a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | Minnikin | a whole armful of gold and silver hoops | the kitchen maid | these |  | once *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent armful=Theme to maid=Recipient |

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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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