The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 5
Still, after a long struggle with himself, he made up his mind that there was nothing else to be done, and that he deserved whatever she might say to him.
Who acts: Prince, nothing, Frog · What happens: make up, be, do, deserve, say, mind · To what, where: mind, whatever, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, nothing, Frog), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 struggle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 struggle | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 struggle | amod |
| 6 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 struggle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 struggle | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 made | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | advcl |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 was | nsubj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 nothing | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 nothing | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 deserved | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 deserved | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 deserved | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 deserved | nsubj |
| 27 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 28 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 say | obj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 say | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | aux |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 deserved | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 say | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Prince | Prince's mind | after a long struggle with Prince; still | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | deserve | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | might | Frog | whatever | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | mind | Prince | 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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