The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 106
But for all that he was not minded to give up the crown.
What happens: not mind, give up · To what, where: giant, crown
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 minded | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 minded | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 minded | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 minded | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 minded | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 minded | advmod |
| 8 | minded | mind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 minded | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 give | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crown | det |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · passive | giant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give up | to-infinitive | the crown | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Source |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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