Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 123
Sometimes she took up her night's lodging in a half-blown tulip, or in a field flower; sometimes she would slip into the church, and wrap herself in the mourning crape that hung down from the candles on the altar."
Who acts: nightingale, mourning crape · What happens: take up, blow, slip, wrap, hang down · To what, where: lodging, blown tulip, church, nightingale, mourning crape, candles
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 (nightingale, mourning crape), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 night | nmod:poss |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 night | case |
| 8 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tulip | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tulip | det |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 blown | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 half | punct |
| 13 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tulip | amod |
| 14 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flower | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 flower | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 flower | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flower | det |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flower | compound |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 slip | punct |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 slip | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slip | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 slip | aux |
| 25 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 church | det |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slip | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wrap | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wrap | cc |
| 31 | wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 slip | parataxis |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 wrap | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 crape | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 crape | det |
| 35 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 crape | compound |
| 36 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wrap | obl |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 hung | nsubj |
| 38 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 crape | acl:relcl |
| 39 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 hung | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 candles | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 candles | det |
| 42 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hung | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 altar | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 altar | det |
| 45 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hung | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 slip | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | nightingale | nightingale's night's lodging | a blown tulip | in a field flower; sometimes property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lodging=Value in tulip=Location | ||
| 2 | blow | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | slip | would | nightingale | the church | sometimes property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | wrap | infinitive | nightingale | the mourning crape | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in crape=Destination | ||||
| 5 | hang down | past | the mourning crape | the candles | on the altar; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on altar=Location |
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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