Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 82

He spent his evenings preparing wooden soles for skates, for he knew, he said, that in a few weeks these shoes would be wanted for the amusement of skating.

Who acts: owner · What happens: spend, prepare, know, say, want, amuse · To what, where: wooden soles, that, skating · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), 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	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 evenings	nmod:poss
4	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spent	advcl
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soles	amod
7	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 preparing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 skates	case
9	skates	skate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 preparing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wanted	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 wanted	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 weeks	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 weeks	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 weeks	amod
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wanted	obl
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 shoes	det
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wanted	nsubj:pass
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wanted	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 wanted	aux:pass
27	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 amusement	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 amusement	det
30	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wanted	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 skating	case
32	skating	skating	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 amusement	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	owner		evening		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	gerund	owner not said here	wooden soles		for skates	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sole=Product for skate=Beneficiary
3	know	past	owner				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	owner				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want	would · passive		that	week	for the amusement of skating	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
6	amuse			skating			nom amusement «feeling 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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