The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 48

I had a boot-jack and a hair-brush, which I never used!

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not use · To what, where: boot jack

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jack	det
4	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jack	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 boot	punct
6	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brush	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brush	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brush	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
11	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jack	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 used	advmod
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jack	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	a boot jack and a hair brush					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient
2	not use	past	I	a boot jack and a hair brush					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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