Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 146
With what may be called great aptitude, if it was not genius the grandmother had taken as it were the flavor of this and of that poet, and had added a little devilry, and then corked up the bottles for use during all future times.
Who acts: spirit, genius · What happens: call, not be, take, be, add, cork up · To what, where: great aptitude, genius, grandmother, little devilry, bottles · 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 (spirit, genius), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 called | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 called | obj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aptitude | amod |
| 7 | aptitude | aptitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 genius | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 genius | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 genius | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 genius | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 genius | advmod |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grandmother | det |
| 15 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 genius | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 flavor | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flavor | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flavor | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flavor | det |
| 22 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 flavor | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 poet | cc |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 poet | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 poet | det |
| 28 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flavor | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 added | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 added | cc |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 added | aux |
| 32 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 called | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 devilry | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 devilry | amod |
| 35 | devilry | devilry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 added | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 corked | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 corked | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 corked | advmod |
| 39 | corked | cork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 added | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 corked | compound:prt |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bottles | det |
| 42 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 corked | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 use | case |
| 44 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 corked | obl |
| 45 | during | during | ADP | _ | 48 times | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 times | det |
| 47 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 times | amod |
| 48 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 corked | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | may · passive | great aptitude | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: what=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | past | spirit | genius | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | genius not said here | the grandmother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | spirit | as the flavor and that poet; of this | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | past · perfect | a little devilry | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devilry=Patient | |||||
| 6 | cork up | participle | the bottles | then; time | for use | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Destination |
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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