Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 171

That was a great event in the marsh, and accordingly all the Will-o'-the-Wisps, male and female, went dancing like little lights across the moor.

Who acts: That · What happens: be, go, dance · To what, where: great event, marsh, moor

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 (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 event	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 event	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 event	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 event	amod
5	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 marsh	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marsh	det
8	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 event	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 o	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 o	cc
11	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 o	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 o	det
14	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 o	aux
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 o	punct
16	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 event	conj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 o	punct
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Wisps	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Wisps	det
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 the	punct
21	Wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 '	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 male	punct
23	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Wisps	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 female	cc
25	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 male	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Wisps	conj
28	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 went	xcomp
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 lights	case
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lights	amod
31	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dancing	obl
32	across	across	ADP	_	34 moor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moor	det
34	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dancing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 event	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a great event	the marsh		tree rules
2	go	past	That not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dance	gerund	That not said here		the moor	like little lights	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme across moor=Trajectory

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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