The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 62
And they made up their minds that—let her scream as loudly as she might—they would take no notice.
Who acts: men, princess · What happens: make up, let, scream, take, mind · To what, where: minds, princess, notice
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:1589): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 minds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 8 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 loudly | advmod |
| 13 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 scream | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 might | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 might | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 loudly | advcl |
| 17 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 minds | acl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 notice | det |
| 22 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | men = man | men's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | infinitive | princess not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | would | men = man | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | men = man | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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