Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 130
I have everything that people want of poetry, in bottles, so that I can put a little on my handkerchief, on holidays, to smell."
Who acts: I, people · What happens: have, want, put, smell · To what, where: everything, bottles, little, handkerchief
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 (I, people), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 want | obj |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poetry | case |
| 8 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bottles | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bottles | case |
| 11 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 put | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 handkerchief | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 holidays | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 holidays | case |
| 25 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 smell | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 smell | mark |
| 28 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 put | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | everything | bottles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | |||
| 2 | want | present | people | of poetry | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | can | I | a little | my handkerchief | on holidays | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme on handkerchief=Destination | ||
| 4 | smell | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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