The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 7
I’ve quite made up my mind that the next time I see her, I shall put her in the water.’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: make up, see, put, mind · To what, where: I, wife, water
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | wife | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | put | shall | I | wife | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 4 | mind | my | 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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