Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 34

They spoke not a word, for they were thinking about the fine extempore speeches they would have to bring out, and these had to be cleverly prepared beforehand.

Who acts: brothers, fine extempore speeches, these · What happens: not speak, think, have, bring out, be · To what, where: word, fine extempore speeches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, fine extempore speeches, these), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 spoke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 thinking	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinking	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	aux
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	15 speeches	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 speeches	det
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speeches	amod
14	extempore	extempore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speeches	compound
15	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thinking	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 speeches	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 bring	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	29 prepared	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 prepared	cop
28	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	29 prepared	advmod
29	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	advcl
30	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	29 prepared	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	brothers = brother	a word		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	brothers = brother		about the fine extempore speeches	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about speech=Topic
3	have	would	brothers = brother	the fine extempore speeches not said here		tree rules
4	bring out	to-infinitive	the fine extempore speeches not said here			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	these			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive	these not said here		beforehand, cleverly, prepared property	tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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