The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 150

He was not prepared for such a speech; he did not know what to say, although he wanted to say something witty.

Who acts: father · What happens: not prepare, not know, say, want · To what, where: father, something · 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 (father), 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	4 prepared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prepared	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 prepared	advmod
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 speech	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 speech	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 speech	det
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prepared	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prepared	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 say	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 say	obj
24	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 something	amod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not prepare	past · passive		father	for such speech	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for speech=Beneficiary
2	not know	past · do-support	father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	want	past	father			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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