The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 73
The next time she had a child the wicked mother did the same thing, but the King could not make up his mind to believe her.
Who acts: mother, wicked mother, King · What happens: have, do, not make up, believe, mind · To what, where: child, same thing, mind, mother
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wicked mother, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mother | amod |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 child | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 make | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 make | advmod |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 make | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 believe | mark |
| 26 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 believe | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mother | a child | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | the wicked mother | the same thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not make up | could | the King | king's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | the King not said here | mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mind | king | 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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