The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 47
The Prince, who had made up his mind to be more than cautious this time, went cheerfully to work.
Who acts: Prince, horse · What happens: make up, be, go, work, mind · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horse), 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 | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 more | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 more | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 made | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 cautious | case |
| 14 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 more | obl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 work | mark |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect | the Prince | horse's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | time | than cautious; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Prince | cheerfully property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mind | horse | 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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