More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 130

He had gold on his cap, gold on his finger, gold on his neck, a red gold watch-chain--eh! but he had brass.

Who acts: man · What happens: gol, have · To what, where: cap, brass

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	3 gold	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gold	aux
3	gold	gol	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 cap	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cap	nmod:poss
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 finger	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 finger	nmod:poss
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gold	punct
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 neck	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neck	nmod:poss
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gold	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chain	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chain	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chain	amod
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chain	compound
21	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chain	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 watch	punct
23	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	parataxis
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 eh	punct
25	eh	eh	INTJ	_	23 chain	discourse
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gold	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gold	conj
30	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gol	past · perfect	man			man's cap on man's finger and gold and gold on man's neck			tree rules
2	have	past	man	brass					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brass=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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