Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 11
No, the little maid could not make up her mind to that. '
Who acts: little maid, maid · What happens: not make up, mind · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maid, maid), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maid | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maid | amod |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 make | compound:prt |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 make | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make up | could | the little maid | maid's mind | to that | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | mind | maid | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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