The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 115

They were not speaking, but they were thinking over all the good things they were going to say, for everything had to be thought out.

Who acts: brothers, everything · What happens: not speak, think, go, say, have, think out · To what, where: good things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, everything), 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	4 speaking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speaking	advmod
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinking	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 thinking	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thinking	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thinking	aux
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 speaking	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	14 things	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 things	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thinking	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 things	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 had	case
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 thought	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 thought	aux:pass
26	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 thought	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · progressive	brothers = brother			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	brothers = brother		all good things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · progressive	brothers = brother	all good things not said here		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	everything			tree rules
6	think out speech: other	to-infinitive · passive	everything not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»

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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