--- title: But still she could not quite make up her mind to go with him and le… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But still she could not quite make up her mind to go with him and leave her father’s kingdom for ever; so she begged him to give her more time to think of it, and he had to go away disappointed once more. Who acts: Graciosa, Percinet. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, Percinet), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:25:10 # text = But still she could not quite make up her mind to go with him and leave her father’s kingdom for ever; so she begged him to give her more time to think of it, and he had to go away disappointed once more. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 disappointed disappointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 45 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 46 advmod _ _ 46 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make up** | could | Graciosa | Graciosa's mind | | | still | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | Graciosa's mind *not said here* | | | | with Percinet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | Graciosa's father's kingdom | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme for ever=Recipient | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Graciosa | | Percinet | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | | Graciosa | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | of kingdom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | past | Percinet | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Percinet *not said here* | | | | | away, disappointed *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **mind** | | Graciosa | | | | | | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/11/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/)