Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 22

Such a dear old fellow as he was!" said he; "was there ever any one like him?

Who acts: son · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fellow	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fellow	det
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 one	advmod
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 one	advmod
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	be	past	son		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past		there property	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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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