The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 119

The Council talked over this report for some days, and then the king made up his mind that he would judge for himself, and pretend to be his own ambassador.

Who acts: Council, king · What happens: talk, make up, judge, pretend, be, mind · To what, where: report, mind, own ambassador

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Council, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Council	det
2	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 report	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 report	det
6	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 made	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 talked	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 made	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mind	nmod:poss
18	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 judge	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 judge	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 judge	aux
22	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 judge	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pretend	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pretend	cc
27	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 judge	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	32 ambassador	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 ambassador	cop
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ambassador	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ambassador	amod
32	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pretend	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the Council		this report	day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make up	participle	the king	king's mind		then		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	judge	would	king				for king	vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for himself=Beneficiary
4	pretend	infinitive	king not said here					tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's own ambassador				tree rules
6	mind		king					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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