Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 19

There's nothing in the pockets, and that's very interesting, for that's half of an unfortunate attachment.

Who acts: nothing, that · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 's	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pockets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pockets	det
6	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 interesting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 interesting	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 interesting	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 interesting	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 interesting	advmod
12	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 's	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 half	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 half	det
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 half	cop
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 interesting	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 attachment	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 attachment	det
20	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 attachment	amod
21	attachment	attachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 half	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 's	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	that		interesting property	tree rules
3	is	present	that not said here		for that half; of a unfortunate attachment	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: «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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