Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 112
Witches get forward faster than men, and I'm glad that I belong to the witch folk!"
Who acts: Witches, I · What happens: get, be, belong
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 (Witches, I), 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 | Witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 get | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 faster | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glad | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 glad | cop |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 belong | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 belong | nsubj |
| 14 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 glad | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 folk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 folk | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 folk | compound |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Witches | fast, forward property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | I | to the witch folk | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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