Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 107
Come to me in the moor, where my presence is necessary, and I will tell you all about it; but you must make haste, and come while your seven four-leaved shamrocks, for which one has six leaves, are still fresh, and the moon stands high!"
Who acts: you, presence, I, one, moon · What happens: come, be, tell, make, have, stand · To what, where: me, moor, you, haste, six leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, presence, I, one), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 moor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moor | det |
| 6 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 necessary | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 necessary | advmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 presence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 necessary | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 necessary | cop |
| 12 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moor | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 make | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 27 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 come | cc |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | conj |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 shamrocks | mark |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 shamrocks | nmod:poss |
| 33 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 shamrocks | nummod |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 seven | nmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 four | punct |
| 36 | leaved | leaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 shamrocks | amod |
| 37 | shamrocks | shamrock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 come | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 has | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 has | mark |
| 40 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | conj |
| 43 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 leaves | nummod |
| 44 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 has | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fresh | punct |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 fresh | cop |
| 47 | still | still | ADV | _ | 48 fresh | advmod |
| 48 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 make | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 stands | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 stands | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 moon | det |
| 52 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 stands | nsubj |
| 53 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 54 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 stands | xcomp |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | me | the moor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | my presence | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | about presence | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=Topic | |||
| 4 | make | must | you | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | present | which one | six leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | present | you not said here | still | fresh property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | stand | present | the moon | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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