The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 94

Such a fellow as he was could never turn into such a man as you are, sir.’

Who acts: Halvor, you · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: fellow

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, you), 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	3 fellow	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 turn	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	cop
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 turn	advmod
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fellow	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 man	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 sir	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sir	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sir	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sir	punct
18	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fellow	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	could · past	Halvor	such fellow not said here				into such man; turn property	tree rules
2	is	present	you					as sir	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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