The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 40

Sylvia was glad to have leisure to think, for she could not make up her mind at all what she should ask for herself, and the time was drawing very near.

Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: be, have, think, not make up, ask, draw · To what, where: leisure, mind, all

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 glad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	xcomp
6	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leisure	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 make	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 make	advmod
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 make	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 make	obl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 ask	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ask	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	aux
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 all	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 ask	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drawing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drawing	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drawing	obl:unmarked
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drawing	aux
31	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 glad	conj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 near	advmod
33	near	near	ADV	_	31 drawing	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sylvia				glad property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	Sylvia not said here	leisure				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leisure=Patient
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Sylvia not said here	leisure not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not make up	could	Sylvia	Sylvia's mind	all			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	ask speech: ask	should	Sylvia				for Sylvia	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
6	draw	past · progressive	Sylvia not said here			time	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mind		Sylvia					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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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