Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 30
"You ought to be a countess," said the shirt collar; "but all I possess consists of a fine gentleman, a boot-jack, and a comb.
Who acts: You, countess · What happens: be, say, possess · To what, where: countess, shirt collar · 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 (You, countess), 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 | _ | 7 countess | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 countess | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 countess | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 countess | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 countess | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 countess | det |
| 7 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 countess | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 countess | 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 | 13 collar | det |
| 12 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collar | compound |
| 13 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 consists | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 all | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 consists | det |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 possess | nsubj |
| 19 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | consists | consist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gentleman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gentleman | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gentleman | amod |
| 24 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consists | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 jack | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 jack | det |
| 27 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jack | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 boot | punct |
| 29 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consists | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 comb | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 comb | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 comb | det |
| 33 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consists | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | ought | You | a countess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a countess | the shirt collar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | possess in a quote | present | a countess = countess | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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