Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 65
Therefore he made up his mind to make it up to the poor lad, and convince him that there were still kind folks in the world.
Who acts: Jurgen, kind folks · What happens: make up, convince, be, mind · To what, where: mind, Jurgen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, kind folks), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 make | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lad | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lad | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lad | amod |
| 14 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 convince | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 convince | cc |
| 17 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 convince | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 were | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 were | expl |
| 21 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 convince | advcl |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 folks | advmod |
| 23 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 folks | amod |
| 24 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 were | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Jurgen | Jurgen's mind | therefore property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | mind | to the poor lad | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot | |||
| 3 | convince | infinitive | Jurgen not said here | Jurgen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | be | past | kind folks in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | Jurgen | 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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