The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 24

But Medio Pollito had made up his mind, and he would not listen to his mother’s advice, nor to the prayers and entreaties of his brothers and sisters.

Who acts: Medio, brothers · What happens: make up, not listen, mind, pray · To what, where: mind

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medio, brothers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Medio	flat
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 advice	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 advice	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 mother	case
19	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prayers	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 prayers	cc
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 prayers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prayers	det
24	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listen	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 entreaties	cc
26	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 prayers	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 brothers	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 prayers	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sisters	cc
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brothers	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	past · perfect	Medio	Medio's mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	not listen	would	Medio		to Medio's mother's advice; to the prayers of Medio's brothers and sisters and entreaties	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme
3	mind		Medio			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	pray		Medio's brothers and sisters			nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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