Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 56

I had both a boot-jack and a hair-comb, which I never used!

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not use · To what, where: boot jack, hair comb

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	7 jack	cc:preconj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jack	det
5	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jack	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 boot	punct
7	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 comb	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 comb	det
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comb	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hair	punct
12	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jack	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 used	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 used	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 used	advmod
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 comb	acl:relcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	a boot jack and a hair comb					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient
2	not use	past	I	a hair comb					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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: «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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