Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 103
No, indeed, there are more important things to be done here, and other things to notice!"
Who acts: important things, other things · What happens: be, do, notice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (important things, other things), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 are | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 are | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 notice | advcl |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 important | advmod |
| 8 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 things | acl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 done | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 notice | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 notice | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 notice | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 notice | mark |
| 19 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 notice | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | important things | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive · passive | important things not said here | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | notice | to-infinitive | other things | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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