Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 52

They all had much to say, but the collar the most; for he was a real boaster.

Who acts: collars, other · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (collars, other), 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	3 had	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 collar	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 collar	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 collar	det
10	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 most	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 collar	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 boaster	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	19 boaster	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 boaster	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boaster	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boaster	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boaster	amod
19	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	collars = collar	much		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	other		for a real boaster	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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