The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 67
At length he gave up hope, and made up his mind that he should see his little friend no more.
Who acts: man · What happens: give up, make up, see, mind · To what, where: hope, length, mind, little friend
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. 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 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 made | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | man | hope | length | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | man not said here | man's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | see | should | man | man's little friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | 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 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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