Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 117
"Don't get on your stilts," said the crone, "and I'll answer you.
Who acts: crone · What happens: not get, say, answer · To what, where: stilts, you · 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 (crone), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stilts | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stilts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stilts | stilt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crone | det |
| 12 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crone | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 crone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 answer | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 answer | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 answer | aux |
| 18 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 answer | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | infinitive · do-support | your stilts | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on stilt=Source | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | future | the crone = crone | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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