Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 125

"I ought at least to know as much as you," answered the Moor-woman. "

Who acts: Moor woman · What happens: know, answer · To what, where: much, least · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Moor woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 know	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 know	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 much	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
16	Moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 woman	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Moor	punct
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	ought	the Moor woman = woman	much		least		as you	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Moor woman						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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