Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 137
"Yes, then you must know it; and you must know also that the girl sank into the earth directly, to the Moor-woman, just as Old Bogey's grandmother was paying her morning visit to inspect the brewery.
Who acts: you, girl, grandmother · What happens: know, sink, pay, inspect, visit · To what, where: history, earth, morning visit, brewery
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 (you, girl, grandmother), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 know | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 sank | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sank | nsubj |
| 18 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sank | obl |
| 22 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 18 sank | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 woman | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 26 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 woman | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Moor | punct |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sank | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 paying | punct |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 paying | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 paying | mark |
| 32 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Bogey | amod |
| 33 | Bogey | Bogey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Bogey | case |
| 35 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paying | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 paying | aux |
| 37 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sank | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 visit | nmod:poss |
| 39 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 visit | compound |
| 40 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paying | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 inspect | mark |
| 42 | inspect | inspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 paying | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 brewery | det |
| 44 | brewery | brewery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 inspect | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | must | you | history | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sink in a quote | past | the girl | the earth | to the Moor woman; directly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | pay in a quote | past · progressive | Old Bogey's grandmother | grandmother's morning visit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | ||||
| 5 | inspect in a quote | to-infinitive | Old Bogey's grandmother not said here | the brewery | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brewery=Theme | ||||
| 6 | visit in a quote | grandmother | nom visit «act transitive»: 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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