The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 204

There was once a fine gentleman whose entire worldly possessions consisted of a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had the most beautiful shirt-collar in the world, and it is about this that we are going to hear a story.

Who acts: fine gentleman, gentleman, collar, this · What happens: be, consist, have, go, hear, possess · To what, where: entire worldly possessions, beautiful shirt collar, world, story

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine gentleman, gentleman, collar, this), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	amod
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 possessions	nmod:poss
8	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 possessions	amod
9	worldly	worldly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 possessions	amod
10	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gentleman	nmod
11	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 possessions	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 jack	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 jack	det
14	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jack	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 boot	punct
16	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consisted	obl:agent
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brush	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 brush	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brush	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hair	punct
21	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jack	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 collar	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 beautiful	advmod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 collar	amod
29	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 collar	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 shirt	punct
31	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 collar	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 going	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 going	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 this	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 this	cop
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 this	case
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 going	nsubj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 going	mark
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 going	nsubj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 going	aux
44	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 had	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 hear	mark
46	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 going	xcomp
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 story	det
48	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hear	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fine gentleman a fine gentleman a fine gentleman's entire worldly possessions's entire worldly possessions		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	consist	participle		a fine gentleman a fine gentleman entire worldly possessions's entire worldly possessions's entire worldly possessions not said here			tree rules
3	have	past	gentleman	the beautiful shirt collar	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient
4	is	present	collar			about this	tree rules
5	go	present · progressive	this				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hear	to-infinitive	this not said here	a story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
7	possess		a fine gentleman a fine gentleman entire worldly possessions's entire worldly possessions				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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