The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 2
However, she was fond of children and had none of her own, so she made up her mind that she would keep it and take care of it.
Who acts: woman · What happens: be, have, make up, keep, take, mind · To what, where: none, mind, care
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 fond | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fond | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | conj |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 none | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 made | compound:prt |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 keep | conj |
| 28 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | of children; fond, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | woman not said here | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | woman | woman's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | keep | would | woman | mind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | woman not said here | care | of care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | mind | woman | 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: «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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