The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 12

‘So I am, and a very fine one too!’ said the shirt-collar; ‘I possess a boot-jack and a hair-brush!’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, say, possess · To what, where: fine one, shirt collar, boot jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 one	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 collar	det
16	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 collar	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 shirt	punct
18	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 possess	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 possess	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 possess	nsubj
22	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 jack	det
24	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jack	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 boot	punct
26	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 possess	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brush	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 brush	det
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brush	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 hair	punct
31	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jack	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 brush	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 brush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a fine one	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the shirt collar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic
3	possess	present	I	a boot jack and a hair brush	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jack=Theme

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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