The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 44

They had all much to tell, but no one more than the shirt-collar, for he was a hopeless braggart.

Who acts: possessions, assortment · What happens: have, tell, be · To what, where: much · 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 (possessions, assortment), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 more	nsubj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 collar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 collar	det
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collar	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shirt	punct
16	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 more	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 braggart	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	23 braggart	case
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 braggart	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 braggart	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 braggart	det
22	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 braggart	amod
23	braggart	braggart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collar	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	possessions = possession	much		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	assortment		for a hopeless braggart	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 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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