Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 1

There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about one of these collars that we are now to hear a story.

Who acts: fine gentleman, all, gentleman, world, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: boot jack, finest false collars, world, one

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine gentleman, all, gentleman, world), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	amod
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 jack	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 jack	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 moveables	case
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 moveables	nmod:poss
11	moveables	moveable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 all	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 jack	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 jack	det
14	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jack	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 boot	punct
16	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gentleman	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 comb	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 comb	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hair	punct
21	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jack	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 collars	det
27	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 collars	amod
28	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 collars	amod
29	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 collars	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 one	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 one	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 one	cop
37	about	about	ADV	_	38 one	advmod
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 was	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 collars	case
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 collars	det
41	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 hear	obj
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 hear	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 hear	cop
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 hear	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 hear	mark
47	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 collars	acl:relcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 story	det
49	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hear	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fine gentleman		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	all	a boot jack and a hair comb				tree rules
3	have	past	gentleman	the finest false collars	the world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient
4	is a	present	world	one			of this collars; about property	tree rules
5	is	present	we			now	hear 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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