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title: As soon as Minnikin had got safely on his ship again, he said: ‘Now… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Minnikin had got safely on his ship again, he said: ‘Now go over salt water and fresh water, over hill and dale, and do not stop until thou comest unto the King’s palace.’ Who acts: Minnikin, thou. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3, with its dependenc
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 49

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As soon as Minnikin had got safely on his ship again, he said: ‘Now go over salt water and fresh water, over hill and dale, and do not stop until thou comest unto the King’s palace.’

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**Who acts:** Minnikin, thou · **What happens:** get, say, go, not stop, come · **To what, where:** ship, salt water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, thou), 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:pg540:46:49
# text = As soon as Minnikin had got safely on his ship again, he said: ‘Now go over salt water and fresh water, over hill and dale, and do not stop until thou comest unto the King’s palace.’
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
7	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	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	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
35	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	comest	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Minnikin |  |  | Minnikin's ship | again | safely *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on ship=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Minnikin |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | salt water and fresh water | now | over hill and dale | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over water=Initial\_Location over hill=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | unto the King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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