Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 178

The Will-o'-the-Wisp may take whatever form he likes, of man or woman, and can act in their spirit and in their disguise in such a way that he can effect whatever he wishes to do.

Who acts: Wisp, form, person · What happens: take, like, act, effect, wish, do · To what, where: whatever, spirit

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, form, person), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wisp	det
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 Wisp	aux
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Wisp	punct
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 Wisp	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Wisp	punct
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Wisp	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wisp	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 the	punct
9	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 likes	obj
13	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 likes	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 likes	nsubj
15	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 likes	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 woman	cc
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 act	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 act	cc
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 act	aux
24	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 spirit	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spirit	nmod:poss
27	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 act	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disguise	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 disguise	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 disguise	nmod:poss
31	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spirit	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 way	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 act	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 effect	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 effect	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 effect	aux
39	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 way	nmod
40	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 wishes	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wishes	nsubj
42	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 effect	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wishes	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	may	the Wisp				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	like	present	form	whatever			tree rules
3	act	can	the Wisp not said here		Wisps's spirit and Wisps's disguise	in such way	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	effect	can	person				tree rules
5	wish	present	person	whatever			tree rules
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	person not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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