The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 89
For a long time the Herd-boy had made up his mind to prepare a surprise for this beautiful creature on her birthday.
Who acts: BOY · What happens: make up, prepare, mind · To what, where: Herd boy, surprise, birthday
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (BOY), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 6 | Herd | Herd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boy | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Herd | punct |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prepare | mark |
| 15 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 surprise | det |
| 17 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepare | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 creature | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 creature | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creature | amod |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepare | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 birthday | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 24 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepare | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect · passive | the Herd boy | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | to-infinitive | a surprise | company's birthday | for this beautiful creature | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent surprise=Product for creature=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | mind | BOY | 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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