The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 51

‘My mother says we may play together to-day, as she wants to make up her mind what to do about you.

Who acts: mother, we, mind · What happens: say, play, want, make up, do, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, we, mind), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 play	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 play	aux
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 play	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 wants	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 play	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wants	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 make	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mind	nmod:poss
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	may	we		day	together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	mother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make up not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's mind			tree rules
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother's mind not said here			about you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	mind		mother				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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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