--- title: Unluckily one morning, as Minon-Minette was cantering slowly on her… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Unluckily one morning, as Minon-Minette was cantering slowly on her beautiful white horse, thinking a great deal about Souci and not at all of the boundaries of her kingdom (of which, indeed, she was very ignorant), she suddenly found herself in front of a house made entirely of dead leaves, which s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/) / 98 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 98 Unluckily one morning, as Minon-Minette was cantering slowly on her beautiful white horse, thinking a great deal about Souci and not at all of the boundaries of her kingdom (of which, indeed, she was very ignorant), she suddenly found herself in front of a house made entirely of dead leaves, which somehow brought all sorts of unpleasant things into her head. **Who acts:** Minon Minette, Minette · **What happens:** canter, think, be, find, make, bring · **To what, where:** great deal, Minette, front, house, dead leaves, head This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minon Minette, Minette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:30:98 # text = Unluckily one morning, as Minon-Minette was cantering slowly on her beautiful white horse, thinking a great deal about Souci and not at all of the boundaries of her kingdom (of which, indeed, she was very ignorant), she suddenly found herself in front of a house made entirely of dead leaves, which somehow brought all sorts of unpleasant things into her head. 1 Unluckily unluckily ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 Minon Minon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Minette Minette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 cantering canter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 appos _ _ 11 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Souci Souci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boundaries boundary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 ignorant ignorant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 49 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 48 obj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 55 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 acl _ _ 56 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 obj _ _ 62 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 64 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 65 det _ _ 65 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obj _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 unpleasant unpleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nmod _ _ 69 into into ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **canter** | past · progressive | Minon Minette | | | | | on Minette's beautiful white horse; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Minon Minette *not said here* | a great deal | | | | about Souci | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Minette | | | | | ignorant, indeed *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | past | Minette | Minette | | front of a house | morning | suddenly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 5 | **make** | participle | | a house *not said here* | | | | of dead leaves; entirely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **bring** | past | | dead leaves | | Minette's head | | somehow *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination sort=Theme | | 7 | **sort** | | | unpleasant things | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/99/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/)