Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 11
"I wonder if the Story will ever come back again and knock?"
Who acts: man, Story · What happens: wonder, come back, knock
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 (man, Story), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Story | det |
| 6 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knock | cc |
| 13 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | the man = man | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | the Story | ever; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock in a quote | infinitive | the Story not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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