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title: So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs and tongue, and Minnikin went and brought all the gold and silver and precious things which he had taken out of the Trolls’ ships; and they each of them laid these tokens before the King. Who acts: Ritter, Minnikin, Trolls. A sentence
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 93

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So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs and tongue, and Minnikin went and brought all the gold and silver and precious things which he had taken out of the Trolls’ ships; and they each of them laid these tokens before the King.

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**Who acts:** Ritter, Minnikin, Trolls · **What happens:** run off, go, bring, take out, lay · **To what, where:** gold, precious things, ships, tokens

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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 (Ritter, Minnikin, Trolls), 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:pg540:45:93
# text = So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs and tongue, and Minnikin went and brought all the gold and silver and precious things which he had taken out of the Trolls’ ships; and they each of them laid these tokens before the King.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
43	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
47	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	tokens	token	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	before	before	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | Ritter |  |  |  |  | for Ritter's handkerchief with the lungs and tongue | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | past | Minnikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Minnikin *not said here* | all gold and silver and precious things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | past · perfect · passive |  | precious things |  | the Trolls's ships |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past | Trolls *= troll* | this tokens |  |  | before the King |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent token=Theme before king=Destination |

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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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