Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 13

He has a turning lathe of his own, and it is a great amusement to him."

Who acts: boy, lathe · What happens: have, turn, be · To what, where: turning lathe, great amusement, boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lathe), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lathe	det
4	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lathe	amod
5	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lathe	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 amusement	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 amusement	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 amusement	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 amusement	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 amusement	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 amusement	amod
15	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 amusement	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	boy	a turning lathe of boy's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lathe=Patient
2	turn	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	lathe	a great amusement	boy	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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