The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 36
“I must make up my mind to die,” said the poor Queen.
Who acts: poor Queen, mind, my · What happens: make up, die, say, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Queen, mind, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 die | mark |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Queen | amod |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up in a quote | must | the poor Queen = queen | my mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | my mind not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the poor Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | my | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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