Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 61

He had but very little luggage with him, because it was so cumbersome in the great heat; he had, however, swimming-trousers with him, which are nothing to carry.

Who acts: singer, hat, swimming trousers · What happens: have, be, carry · To what, where: little luggage, great heat, swimming trousers, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singer, hat, swimming trousers), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 luggage	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luggage	amod
6	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 luggage	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cumbersome	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 cumbersome	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cumbersome	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cumbersome	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 cumbersome	advmod
14	cumbersome	cumbersome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 heat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heat	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heat	amod
18	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cumbersome	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trousers	punct
23	however	however	ADV	_	27 trousers	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 however	punct
25	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trousers	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 swimming	punct
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 trousers	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 nothing	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	cop
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 trousers	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 carry	mark
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	singer	little luggage		with luggage	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luggage=Patient
2	is	past	hat		the great heat	cumbersome property	tree rules
3	have	past	singer	swimming trousers		with luggage	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Patient
4	is a	present	swimming trousers	nothing			tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	singer not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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