The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 142

But then the bandmaster made a little speech full of hard words, saying that it was just as good as before.

Who acts: bandmaster, speech · What happens: make, say, be · To what, where: little speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bandmaster, speech), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 made	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bandmaster	det
4	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 speech	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speech	amod
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speech	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 words	case
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 good	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 good	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saying	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	20 good	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the bandmaster	a little speech	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
2	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	speech			good 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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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