Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 35

There is plenty of grass for him by our palings, and in the winter we could keep him in the room with us.

Who acts: plenty, we · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: peasant, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, we), 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 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 grass	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plenty	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grass	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 palings	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 palings	nmod:poss
10	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plenty	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 winter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winter	det
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 us	case
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 room	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	plenty of grass for peasant by our palings			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	could	we	peasant		the room with us	winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in room=Location

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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