Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 138

She saw the girl gliding down, and asked to have her as a remembrance of her visit, and got her too; while I received a present that's of no use to me--a travelling druggist's shop--a whole cupboard-full of poetry in bottles.

Who acts: girl, I, present · What happens: see, glide down, ask, have, get, receive · To what, where: girl, present, me, visit

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 (girl, I, present), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 girl	acl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 gliding	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 remembrance	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 remembrance	det
15	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 visit	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 visit	nmod:poss
18	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembrance	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 received	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 received	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 received	nsubj
27	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 present	det
29	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 use	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 use	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 use	case
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 use	det
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 present	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 use	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 shop	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 druggist	det
39	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 druggist	amod
40	druggist	druggist	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shop	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 druggist	case
42	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	conj
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 poetry	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 poetry	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 poetry	amod
46	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 full	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 cupboard	punct
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 poetry	amod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 poetry	case
50	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	parataxis
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 bottles	case
52	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 poetry	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	girl	the girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2	glide down	gerund	the girl not said here			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	girl not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl		as a remembrance of girl's visit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	get	past		girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	receive	past	I	a present			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
7	is	present	a present		me	of no use and a travelling druggist's shop	tree rules
8	travel	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	remember			girl's visit			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	visit		girl				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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