Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 119
She's the oldest of us all, but she takes precedence of the youngest.
Who acts: crone · What happens: be, take · To what, where: precedence
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 oldest | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 oldest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oldest | det |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 oldest | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 takes | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 oldest | conj |
| 12 | precedence | precedence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 youngest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youngest | det |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 precedence | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 oldest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | crone | of us; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | crone | precedence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precedence=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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