Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 126

Stories and poetry--yes, they're like two yards of the same piece of stuff; they can go and lie down where they like, and one can brew all their prattle, and have it all the better and cheaper.

Who acts: stories, one · What happens: be, go, lie down, like, brew, have · To what, where: prattle

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 (stories, one), 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	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 go	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 poetry	cc
3	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stories	conj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 yards	punct
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 yards	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yes	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 yards	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 yards	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 yards	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 yards	nummod
11	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stories	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 piece	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 piece	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piece	amod
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yards	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 stuff	case
17	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 piece	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lie	cc
23	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 lie	compound:prt
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 like	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
27	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lie	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brew	cc
30	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brew	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 brew	aux
32	brew	brew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 prattle	det:predet
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 prattle	nmod:poss
35	prattle	prattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brew	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 have	obj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 better	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 better	det
42	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 have	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 cheaper	cc
44	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 better	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	stories = story		like two yards; of the same piece of stuff	tree rules
2	go	can	Stories and poetry and two yards			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie down	infinitive	Stories and poetry and two yards not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	present	stories = story			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	brew	can	one	stories's prattle		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prattle=Product
6	have	infinitive	Stories and poetry and two yards not said here	prattle	good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	prattle		stories = story			nom prattle «communication intransitive»: poss=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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