Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 170

A little Will-o'-the-Wisp was born here--in fact, twelve of them were born all together; and they have permission, if they choose to use it, to go abroad among men, and to move about and command among them, just as if they were born mortals.

Who acts: Wisps · What happens: bear, have, choose, use, go, move about · To what, where: Wisp, fact, permission, Wisps · 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 (Wisps), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 '	aux
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 '	punct
5	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 '	case
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 little	punct
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 born	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 born	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Wisp	punct
10	Wisp	Wisp	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 born	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 '	conj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 born	advmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 fact	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 fact	case
16	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 born	nsubj:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twelve	punct
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fact	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 twelve	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 born	aux:pass
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 born	conj
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 together	advmod
24	together	together	ADV	_	22 born	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 born	parataxis
29	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 choose	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 choose	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 choose	nsubj
33	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 have	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 use	mark
35	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 choose	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 use	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 go	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 use	conj
40	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
41	among	among	ADP	_	42 men	case
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 go	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 move	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 move	cc
45	to	to	PART	_	46 move	mark
46	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 have	parataxis
47	about	about	ADV	_	46 move	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 command	cc
49	command	command	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 move	conj
50	among	among	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 command	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 mortals	punct
53	just	just	ADV	_	59 mortals	advmod
54	as	as	ADP	_	59 mortals	case
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 born	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 born	nsubj:pass
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 born	aux:pass
58	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 mortals	amod
59	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 command	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Wisp	here		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	bear	past · passive		fact		together property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	present	Wisps = wisp	permission			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
4	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	Wisps = wisp				tree rules
5	use	to-infinitive	Wisps = wisp not said here	permission			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	go	to-infinitive	Wisps = wisp not said here			among men; abroad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among man=Location
7	move about	to-infinitive				about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	command	infinitive				among Wisps = wisp; as born mortals	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent among they=Eventuality
9	bear a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Wisps = wisp			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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