More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 48

The coachman did not want to be every one's jest, and he said nothing.

Who acts: coachman, William · What happens: not want, be, say · To what, where: jest, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, William), 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 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	11 jest	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 jest	cop
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jest	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the coachman		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the coachman not said here	every one's jest	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	William	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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