Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 120
That's what he has now for keeping the nest.
Who acts: That, picture · What happens: be, have, keep · To what, where: nest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, picture), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 has | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeping | mark |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 has | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nest | det |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | picture | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | picture not said here | the nest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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