The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 10
But still she could not quite make up her mind to go with him and leave her father’s kingdom for ever; so she begged him to give her more time to think of it, and he had to go away disappointed once more.
Who acts: Graciosa, Percinet · What happens: not make up, go, leave, beg, give, think · To what, where: mind, kingdom, Percinet, Graciosa
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, Percinet), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 make | compound:prt |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mind | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leave | cc |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ever | case |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 leave | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 begged | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 begged | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 begged | nsubj |
| 26 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 begged | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 give | mark |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 begged | xcomp |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 think | mark |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 time | acl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 think | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 had | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 begged | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 go | mark |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 had | xcomp |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 go | advmod |
| 44 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 go | xcomp |
| 45 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 46 more | advmod |
| 46 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 go | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make up | could | Graciosa | Graciosa's mind | still | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | Graciosa's mind not said here | with Percinet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Graciosa not said here | Graciosa's father's kingdom | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme for ever=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Graciosa | Percinet | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | Graciosa | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | of kingdom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Percinet | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go away | to-infinitive | Percinet not said here | away, disappointed property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | mind | Graciosa | 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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