The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 2

‘Hulloa!’ said the shirt-collar, ‘never before have I seen anything so slim and delicate, so elegant and pretty!

Who acts: Hulloa, I · What happens: say, see · To what, where: shirt collar, anything · 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 (Hulloa, 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	_	2 Hulloa	punct
2	Hulloa	Hulloa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hulloa	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hulloa	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collar	det
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collar	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 shirt	punct
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 before	advmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	16 seen	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 seen	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 slim	advmod
19	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seen	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 delicate	cc
21	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 slim	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 elegant	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 elegant	advmod
24	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretty	cc
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 elegant	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hulloa	the shirt collar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic
2	see	present · perfect	I	anything				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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