Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 62
That is a very artless and loveable wish; and being engaged will keep him steady.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, engage, keep · To what, where: artless wish, son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wish | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 artless | advmod |
| 5 | artless | artless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loveable | cc |
| 7 | loveable | loveable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 artless | conj |
| 8 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 engaged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 engaged | cc |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 engaged | aux:pass |
| 12 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 keep | advcl |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a artless wish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | engage | gerund · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | keep | future | son | steady property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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