Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 66

He had not been prepared for a speech of this kind, and had not a word to say, though he intended to say something witty. "

Who acts: Baa · What happens: not prepare, have, say, intend, speak · To what, where: Baa, word, something, kind · 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 (Baa), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prepared	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 prepared	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 prepared	aux:pass
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 speech	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 speech	det
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kind	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speech	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	parataxis
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 word	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 word	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 intended	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 intended	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 intended	nsubj
23	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 intended	xcomp
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 say	obj
27	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 something	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not prepare	past · perfect · passive		Baa	for a speech of this kind	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for speech=Beneficiary
2	have	past		a word		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		a word not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	intend	past	Baa			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Baa not said here	something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	speak			this kind		nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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