Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 177
It can enter into a person and speak for him, and make all the movements it pleases.
Who acts: moon · What happens: enter, speak, make, please · To what, where: movements · 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 (moon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enter | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 enter | aux |
| 3 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 person | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enter | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 speak | cc |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enter | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 enter | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 movements | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 movements | det |
| 16 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pleases | nsubj |
| 18 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 movements | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | can | moon | into a person | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into person=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | moon not said here | for person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | all movements | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product | |||||
| 4 | please | present | moon | all movements not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus movement=Experiencer |
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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