The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 50

At last the nurse made up her mind to go to the King, and told him the whole story, and asked him to be present in person next day about the time when the woman usually came.

Who acts: last nurse, woman · What happens: make up, go, tell, ask, be, come · To what, where: mind, whole story, thing, last nurse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last nurse, woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 nurse	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nurse	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nurse	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mind	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 story	amod
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 present	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 present	cop
27	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 asked	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 person	case
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 present	obl
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 day	amod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl:unmarked
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 came	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 woman	det
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
38	usually	usually	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle	the last nurse not said here	woman's mind					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	the last nurse not said here	woman's mind not said here				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past		the whole story	thing	the last nurse			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past			thing		day; time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						in person; present property	tree rules
6	come	past	the woman					usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	mind		woman						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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