The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 143
One day she made up her mind to tell everything to her eldest sister.
Who acts: bouquet · What happens: make up, tell, mind · To what, where: mind, everything, eldest sister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bouquet), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 tell | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sister | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 sister | amod |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | bouquet | bouquet's mind | day | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | bouquet not said here | everything | bouquet's eldest sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to sister=Recipient | |||
| 3 | mind | bouquet | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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