The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 87

The other had worked at the laws of corporation, and knew by heart what every member of the corporation ought to know, so that he thought he could quite well speak on State matters and give his opinion.

Who acts: other, member · What happens: work, know, think, speak, give, opine · To what, where: State matters, opinion · 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 (other, member), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 other	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	aux
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 laws	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 laws	det
7	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 corporation	case
9	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laws	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 heart	case
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	obl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 knew	obj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 member	det
17	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 know	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 corporation	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corporation	det
20	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 member	nmod
21	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 thought	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knew	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 speak	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 speak	aux
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 speak	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 speak	advmod
33	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thought	ccomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 matters	case
35	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 matters	compound
36	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 speak	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 give	cc
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 speak	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 opinion	nmod:poss
40	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	past · perfect	the other			at the laws of corporation	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at law=Theme
2	know	past				by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	know	ought	every member of the corporation				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	member				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	speak speech: other	could	member		State matters	well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give	infinitive	member not said here	member's opinion			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
7	opine		member				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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