The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 65
So she made up her mind that she would go and consult the Fairy of the Desert about it, especially as she had often heard how wise she was, and she thought that at the same time she might ask her advice as to whether it would be as well to be married, or not.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: make up, go, consult, hear, be, think · To what, where: mind, Fairy, that, advice · 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 (Bellissima), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 consult | cc |
| 12 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consult | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Desert | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Desert | det |
| 17 | Desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Fairy | nmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Desert | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 26 heard | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 heard | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 heard | advmod |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 consult | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 wise | advmod |
| 28 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heard | xcomp |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 was | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thought | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 thought | obj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ask | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ask | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 ask | aux |
| 42 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 advice | nmod:poss |
| 44 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ask | obj |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 married | mark |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 as | fixed |
| 47 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 55 married | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 married | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 married | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 married | aux:pass |
| 51 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 55 married | cc |
| 52 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 as | fixed |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 married | mark |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 married | aux:pass |
| 55 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 ask | ccomp |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 not | punct |
| 57 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 58 not | cc |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 55 married | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Bellissima | Bellissima's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | go | would | Bellissima | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | consult | infinitive | Bellissima not said here | the Fairy of the Desert about Desert | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | Bellissima | especially, often, wise property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | past | Bellissima | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Bellissima | that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | might | Bellissima | Bellissima's advice | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 8 | not marry not said to happen | would · passive | advice | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | mind | Bellissima | 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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