---
title: That is a very artless and loveable wish; and being engaged will kee… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That is a very artless and loveable wish; and being engaged will keep him steady. Who acts: That. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Beetle Who Went on His Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/) / 62

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 62

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That is a very artless and loveable wish; and being engaged will keep him steady.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, engage, keep · **To what, where:** artless wish, son

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:8:62
# text = That is a very artless and loveable wish; and being engaged will keep him steady.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	artless	artless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loveable	loveable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/63/)
- ↑ back to [The Beetle Who Went on His Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/)