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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

advmodnsubjcompound:prtnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjcasedetcompoundpunctamodoblpunctcccasedetcompoundoblpunctadvmodnsubjauxparataxiscasedetoblpunctccparataxisobjcasedetcompoundoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctpunctrootSometimesADVshePRONtookVERBupADPherPRONnightNOUN'sPARTlodgingNOUNinADPaDEThalfNOUN-PUNCTblownVERBtulipNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJinADPaDETfieldNOUNflowerNOUN;PUNCTsometimesADVshePRONwouldAUXslipVERBintoADPtheDETchurchNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwrapVERBherselfPRONinADPtheDETmourningNOUNcrapeNOUNthatPRONhungVERBdownADVfromADPtheDETcandlesNOUNonADPtheDETaltarNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind3 tookadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4upupADP_3 tookcompound:prt
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 nightnmod:poss
6nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing8 lodgingnmod:poss
7's'sPART_6 nightcase
8lodginglodgingNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
9ininADP_14 tulipcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 tulipdet
11halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac13 blowncompound
12--PUNCT_11 halfpunct
13blownblowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 tulipamod
14tuliptulipNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobl
15,,PUNCT_20 flowerpunct
16ororCCONJ_20 flowercc
17ininADP_20 flowercase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 flowerdet
19fieldfieldNOUNNumber=Sing20 flowercompound
20flowerflowerNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobl
21;;PUNCT_25 slippunct
22sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind25 slipadvmod
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 slipnsubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 slipaux
25slipslipVERBVerbForm=Inf3 tookparataxis
26intointoADP_28 churchcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 churchdet
28churchchurchNOUNNumber=Sing25 slipobl
29,,PUNCT_31 wrappunct
30andandCCONJ_31 wrapcc
31wrapwrapVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin25 slipparataxis
32herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes31 wrapobj
33ininADP_36 crapecase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 crapedet
35mourningmourningNOUNNumber=Sing36 crapecompound
36crapecrapeNOUNNumber=Sing31 wrapobl
37thatthatPRONPronType=Rel38 hungnsubj
38hunghangVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 crapeacl:relcl
39downdownADV_38 hungadvmod
40fromfromADP_42 candlescase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 candlesdet
42candlescandleNOUNNumber=Plur38 hungobl
43ononADP_45 altarcase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 altardet
45altaraltarNOUNNumber=Sing38 hungobl
46..PUNCT_25 slippunct
47""PUNCT_25 slippunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take uppastnightingalenightingale's night's lodginga blown tulipin a field flower; sometimes propertyvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lodging=Value in tulip=Location
2blowparticiplevn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3slipwouldnightingalethe churchsometimes propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4wrapinfinitivenightingalethe mourning crapevn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in crape=Destination
5hang downpastthe mourning crapethe candleson the altar; down propertyvn 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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