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title: So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to hav… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to have the Princess, and half the kingdom. Who acts: Minnikin. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 95

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So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to have the Princess, and half the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin · **What happens:** throw, have · **To what, where:** Ritter, snake pit, Princess

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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:pg540:45:95
# text = So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to have the Princess, and half the kingdom.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | Ritter |  |  |  | into the snake pit *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into pit=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | Minnikin | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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