Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 179

The stork's nest covered the greater part of it, and that alone was in a good condition; for it was kept in order by the stork himself.

Who acts: nest, stork · What happens: cover, be, keep · To what, where: greater part, good condition, nest, order

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, stork), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nest	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stork	case
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 part	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 condition	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 condition	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 alone	mark
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 condition	advcl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 condition	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 condition	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 condition	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 condition	amod
19	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 kept	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kept	aux:pass
24	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 covered	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 order	case
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 stork	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stork	det
29	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 stork	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cover	past	the stork's nest	the greater part of part		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination
2	is	past			a good condition	tree rules
3	keep	past · passive	the stork window	nest	order	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in order=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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