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title: ‘Hulloa!’ said the shirt-collar, ‘never before have I seen anything… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hulloa!’ said the shirt-collar, ‘never before have I seen anything so slim and delicate, so elegant and pretty! Who acts: Hulloa, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 2

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

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**Who acts:** Hulloa, I · **What happens:** say, see · **To what, where:** shirt collar, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:6:2
# text = ‘Hulloa!’ said the shirt-collar, ‘never before have I seen anything so slim and delicate, so elegant and pretty!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hulloa	Hulloa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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