The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 82

But she was a brave girl and full of spirit, and soon made up her mind that the best thing she could do was to go to the nearest town and become a servant.

Who acts: woman, brave girl, best thing · What happens: be, make up, do, become, mind · To what, where: brave girl, mind, best thing, servant

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, brave girl, best thing), 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	_	6 girl	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 girl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 full	cc
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 spirit	case
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 made	advmod
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 girl	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	nsubj:outer
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 go	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
30	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 town	amod
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 become	cc
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 servant	det
35	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 become	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	woman	a brave girl		tree rules
2	be		woman not said here		of spirit	tree rules
3	make up	participle	a brave girl not said here	woman's mind	soon property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	do	could	woman	the best thing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	is	past	the best thing		to the nearest town; go property	tree rules
6	become	infinitive	the best thing not said here	a servant		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	mind		woman			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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