The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 37
They made up their minds to live altogether for a time in their trees, and for this purpose they had provisions enough stored up inside to last them a year.
Who acts: children · What happens: make up, live, have, store up, last, mind · To what, where: minds, provisions, children
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 minds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 8 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 live | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trees | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 time | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 purpose | det |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 22 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 stored | advmod |
| 24 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 had | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 stored | compound:prt |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 stored | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 last | mark |
| 28 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 stored | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 last | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 last | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | children = child | children's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | time | altogether property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | children = child | for this purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | store up | participle · passive | provisions | enough, inside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | last | to-infinitive | children = child | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value | ||||
| 6 | mind | children = child | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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