Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 129
It makes essences; and that's the best of it--bitter and sweet herbs.
Who acts: cupboard, that · What happens: make, be · To what, where: essences
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 (cupboard, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | essences | essence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 best | cc |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 best | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 best | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 bitter | punct |
| 13 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 herbs | cc |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herbs | amod |
| 16 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bitter | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | cupboard | essences | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material essence=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | of cupboard; good property | tree rules |
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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