The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 8

At last, being of an undecided character and not being able to make up his mind, he took off his boot, and handing it to his daughter, said:

Who acts: man · What happens: be, not be, make up, take off, hand, say · To what, where: mind, boot, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 took	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 character	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 character	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 character	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 character	det
7	undecided	undecided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 character	amod
8	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 last	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 able	advmod
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 make	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	advcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 took	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boot	nmod:poss
23	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
26	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 said	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 handing	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 daughter	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 handing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 handing	punct
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				of a undecided character	tree rules
2	not is	gerund	man not said here			able property	tree rules
3	make up	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	take off	past	man	man's boot			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
5	hand	gerund		boot	man's daughter		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to daughter=Destination
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	mind		man				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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