Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 88
I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: make up, do, mind · To what, where: mind, necessity
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 necessity | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 necessity | case |
| 12 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | mind | necessity | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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