Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 153
"Here is what they call may-balm," replied the woman. "
Who acts: bottles, woman · What happens: be, call, reply · 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 (bottles, woman), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 balm | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 call | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | acl:relcl |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 balm | aux |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 balm | punct |
| 9 | balm | balm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 balm | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 balm | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present | bottles = bottle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn respond-113 «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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