Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 39

They had all many things to relate, especially the shirt collar, who was a terrible boaster. "

Who acts: jack, shirt collar · What happens: have, relate, be · To what, where: many things, terrible boaster

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 (jack, shirt collar), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 relate	mark
7	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 things	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 collar	punct
9	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 collar	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 collar	det
11	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 collar	compound
12	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boaster	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 boaster	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boaster	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boaster	det
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boaster	amod
18	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 collar	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 boaster	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 boaster	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	jack	many things	tree rules
2	relate	to-infinitive	jack not said here	many things not said here	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the shirt collar	a terrible 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: «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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