Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 180
To lead them away from the right and the truth; and then he reaches the highest point.
Who acts: person · What happens: lead away, reach · To what, where: people, right, highest point
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 (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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 lead | mark |
| 2 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reaches | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lead | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 lead | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 right | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 right | det |
| 7 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lead | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 truth | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 truth | det |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 right | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 reaches | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reaches | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 reaches | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reaches | nsubj |
| 15 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 point | det |
| 17 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 point | amod |
| 18 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reaches | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead away | to-infinitive | person not said here | people | the right and the truth | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from right=Destination | ||
| 2 | reach | present | person | the highest point | then | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
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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