More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 31

And he had half a mind not to go back at all, his father would be so vexed.

Who acts: Gobborn, mind · What happens: have, not go back, vex · To what, where: mind, all, father

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn, mind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 mind	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mind	det
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 go	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vexed	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 vexed	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 vexed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 vexed	aux:pass
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 vexed	advmod
19	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 go	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Gobborn	half mind		tree rules
2	not go back	to-infinitive	half mind not said here		all	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	vex	would · passive		Gobborn's father		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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