Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 20

Still, I should like to have them up in the nest, for they keep one warm.

Who acts: I, feathers · What happens: like, have up, keep · To what, where: feathers, nest, one

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 (I, feathers), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 have	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 keep	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keep	nsubj
16	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 keep	obj
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have up not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	feathers = feather	the nest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	keep	present	feathers = feather	one			warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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