The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 93
And this he continued to do for seven nights, and the girl and her parents made up their minds that it must be a good Fairy who brought the gold every night.
Who acts: this, girl, mind, good Fairy, parents · What happens: continue, do, make up, be, bring, mind · To what, where: minds, good Fairy, gold
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 (this, girl, mind, good Fairy), 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 | _ | 4 continued | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 nights | case |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 nights | nummod |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 parents | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 girl | conj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 made | compound:prt |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 minds | nmod:poss |
| 20 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 Fairy | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Fairy | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 Fairy | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Fairy | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Fairy | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Fairy | amod |
| 27 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | advcl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gold | det |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obj |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 night | det |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | this | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | this not said here | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | the girl and girl's parents | parents's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | is a | must | mind | a good Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | a good Fairy | the gold | night | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 6 | mind | parents = parent | 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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