Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 122
I was once quite a pretty elf-maiden, and have danced in my time with the others in the moonlight, and have heard the nightingale, and have gone into the forest and met the Story-maiden, who was always to be found out there, running about.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, dance, hear, go, meet, find out · To what, where: nightingale, forest
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | cop |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 maiden | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 maiden | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | nsubj |
| 7 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 elf | punct |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 danced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 danced | cc |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 danced | aux |
| 13 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 maiden | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 time | nmod:poss |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 danced | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 danced | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moonlight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moonlight | det |
| 22 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 others | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 heard | cc |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 maiden | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nightingale | det |
| 28 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gone | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gone | cc |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | aux |
| 32 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 maiden | parataxis |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 forest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 forest | det |
| 35 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gone | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 met | cc |
| 37 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 maiden | det |
| 39 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 maiden | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Story | punct |
| 41 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 met | xcomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 found | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 found | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 found | aux:pass |
| 45 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 48 found | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 found | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 found | aux:pass |
| 48 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 maiden | parataxis |
| 49 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 found | compound:prt |
| 50 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 found | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 running | punct |
| 52 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 found | advcl |
| 53 | about | about | ADV | _ | 52 running | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | maiden, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | present · perfect | I not said here | time | with the others in the moonlight | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | the nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | present · perfect | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | meet | past | maiden property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find out | past · passive | there | always property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 7 | run about | gerund | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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