The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 97

“He was a fine fellow, that was!

Who acts: knight · What happens: be · To what, where: fine fellow

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight), 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 fellow	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	acl:relcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	knight	a fine fellow					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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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