The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 28

Having made up his mind what was best to do, he stayed in the town a few days longer till he had four gold pieces safe in his purse.

Who acts: made best, donkey · What happens: make up, be, do, stay, have, mind · To what, where: mind, town, four gold pieces

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (made best, donkey), 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	Having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	aux
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 best	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 best	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 best	cop
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 stayed	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 best	csubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 best	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stayed	nsubj
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stayed	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 longer	obl:unmarked
20	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 stayed	advmod
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	advcl
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 pieces	nummod
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pieces	compound
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 had	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 purse	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 purse	nmod:poss
30	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 safe	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	gerund · perfect		donkey's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	is	past				good property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	past	made best		the town	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
5	have	past	donkey	four gold pieces		safe property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
6	mind		donkey				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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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