The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 47

I was such a fine gentleman, so stiff with starch!

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: fine gentleman

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 gentleman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentleman	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 gentleman	det:predet
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	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stiff	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 stiff	advmod
9	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 starch	case
11	starch	starch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stiff	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 gentleman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	such fine gentleman					tree rules
2	be		I not said here					with starch	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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