Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 13
"I am a fine gentleman certainly," said the shirt-collar, "I possess a boot-jack and a hair-brush."
Who acts: fine gentleman · What happens: be, say, possess · To what, where: fine gentleman, shirt collar, boot jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentleman | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gentleman | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gentleman | cop |
| 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 | 10 said | nsubj |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 gentleman | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentleman | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentleman | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 collar | det |
| 12 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collar | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 shirt | punct |
| 14 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 possess | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 possess | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 possess | nsubj |
| 18 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 jack | det |
| 20 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jack | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 boot | punct |
| 22 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possess | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brush | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 brush | det |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brush | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 hair | punct |
| 27 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jack | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 possess | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 possess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a fine gentleman = gentleman | a fine gentleman | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a fine gentleman | the shirt collar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | possess in a quote | present | a fine gentleman = gentleman | a boot jack and a hair brush | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jack=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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