The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 30
And they made up their minds to stay where they were and continue to earn their living by selling firewood.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: make up, stay, continue, earn, sell, mind · To what, where: minds, living, firewood
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 minds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stay | mark |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 continue | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 continue | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 continue | aux |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 continue | cc |
| 13 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stay | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 earn | mark |
| 15 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 continue | xcomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 living | nmod:poss |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earn | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 selling | mark |
| 19 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 earn | advcl |
| 20 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 selling | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | brothers = brother | brothers's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | brothers = brother | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | brothers's living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sell | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | firewood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mind | brothers = brother | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | live | brothers = brother | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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