Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 42
I had a boot-jack and a brush that I never used.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, not use · To what, where: boot jack, brush
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 (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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jack | det |
| 4 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jack | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 boot | punct |
| 6 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brush | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jack | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 used | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 used | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 used | advmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brush | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 brush | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not use | past | I | a brush | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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: «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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