The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 1

But he changed his mind, and said, ‘Keep it; it makes no difference, for I will take you to be my own dear true wife.’

Who acts: he, mind, I, his · What happens: change, say, keep, make, take, be · To what, where: mind, difference, you, own dear true wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, mind, I, his), 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	_	3 changed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	3 changed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Keep	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Keep	punct
11	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Keep	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 makes	nsubj
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 difference	det
17	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makes	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 take	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 makes	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 take	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	30 wife	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 wife	cop
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wife	amod
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wife	amod
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wife	amod
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	change	past	he	his mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	infinitive		mind		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	make	present	mind	no difference		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product
5	take	future	I		you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
6	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	my own dear true wife		tree rules
7	mind		his = he			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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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