Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 118
You think of nothing but poetry, and only ask about that Story, as if she were the lady of the whole troop.
Who acts: You, crone · What happens: think, ask, be
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 think | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 poetry | cc |
| 6 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | parataxis |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 Story | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Story | det |
| 13 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lady | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 lady | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lady | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lady | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 troop | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 troop | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 troop | amod |
| 24 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lady | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | You | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | about that Story | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about story=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | crone | as the lady; of the whole troop | tree rules |
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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