Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 19
He has the whole cupboard full of silver plate, which he keeps locked up in secret drawers."
Who acts: husband, whole cupboard · What happens: have, keep, lock up · To what, where: whole cupboard, secret drawers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, whole cupboard), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cupboard | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cupboard | amod |
| 5 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cupboard | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 plate | case |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plate | compound |
| 9 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 locked | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 drawers | case |
| 17 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drawers | amod |
| 18 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 locked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | husband | the whole cupboard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupboard=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the whole cupboard | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lock up | participle | the whole cupboard not said here | secret drawers | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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