Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 143

The Moor-woman said that this was always open to her and to every one in the land, if they only knew where the cupboard stood.

Who acts: Moor woman, this, moor, cupboard · What happens: say, be, know, stand · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Moor woman, this, moor, cupboard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	Moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Moor	punct
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 open	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 open	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 open	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 open	advmod
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 open	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 land	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 knew	advmod
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 stood	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cupboard	det
27	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Moor woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this	woman	always, open property	tree rules
3	know a condition, not said to happen	past	moor			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stand	past	the cupboard			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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