The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 32
‘My worldly possessions consist of a fine gentleman, a boot-jack, and a hair-brush.
Who acts: worldly possessions, My · What happens: consist, possess · To what, where: hair brush
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 (worldly possessions, My), 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 | _ | 5 consist | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 3 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 possessions | amod |
| 4 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consist | nsubj |
| 5 | consist | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gentleman | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gentleman | amod |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consist | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jack | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 jack | det |
| 12 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jack | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 boot | punct |
| 14 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gentleman | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brush | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brush | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 brush | det |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brush | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hair | punct |
| 20 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consist | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 consist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | My worldly possessions | a hair brush | of a fine gentleman and a boot jack | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | My | 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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