Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 2

If you hold it in front of you, it is large enough for an apron; and if you hold it over your head, it is almost as good as an umbrella, it is so wonderfully large.

Who acts: you, leaf · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: leaf, front, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, leaf), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 hold	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 large	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 large	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 large	cop
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 large	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 apron	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 apron	det
16	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 large	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 good	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 hold	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hold	nsubj
21	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 good	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hold	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 good	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 good	cop
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 as	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 large	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 umbrella	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 umbrella	det
34	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 good	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 large	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 large	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 large	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 large	advmod
39	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	40 large	advmod
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 good	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	you	leaf	front of you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location
2	is	present	leaf			for a apron; enough, large property	tree rules
3	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	you	leaf	your head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Location
4	is	present	leaf			as a umbrella; good property	tree rules
5	is	present	leaf			large, wonderfully property	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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