Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 176

"The Will-o'-the-Wisp may run about in the country and through the world, if it is not afraid of falling into the sea, or of being blown out by a heavy storm.

Who acts: Wisp, moon, heavy storm · What happens: run about, not be, fall, blow out · To what, where: country, sea

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 (Wisp, moon, heavy storm), 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	_	12 run	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wisp	det
3	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 Wisp	aux
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Wisp	punct
5	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	10 Wisp	case
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Wisp	punct
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Wisp	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wisp	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 run	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 world	cc
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 country	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 afraid	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 afraid	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 afraid	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 afraid	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 afraid	advmod
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 run	conj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 falling	mark
28	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 afraid	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falling	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blown	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 blown	cc
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 blown	mark
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 blown	aux:pass
36	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 run	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 blown	compound:prt
38	by	by	ADP	_	41 storm	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 storm	det
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 storm	amod
41	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blown	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run about in a quote	may	the Wisp	the country and the world	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory
2	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	moon		afraid property	tree rules
3	fall in a quote	gerund	moon not said here		into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
4	blow out in a quote	gerund · passive	a heavy storm			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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