Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 181

Such a Will-o'-the-Wisp can attain to the honor of being a runner before the devil's state coach; and then he'll wear clothes of fiery yellow, and breathe forth flames out of his throat.

Who acts: Wisp, person · What happens: attain, be, wear, breathe · To what, where: clothes, flames, throat

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, 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 Wisp	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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 attain	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 attain	aux
12	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 honor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 honor	det
15	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attain	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 runner	case
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 runner	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 runner	det
19	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 honor	nmod
20	before	before	ADP	_	25 coach	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 devil	det
22	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 coach	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 devil	case
24	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 coach	compound
25	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attain	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 wear	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wear	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 wear	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wear	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wear	aux
31	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 attain	parataxis
32	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 wear	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 yellow	case
34	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 yellow	amod
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 clothes	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 breathe	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 breathe	cc
38	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wear	conj
39	forth	forth	ADV	_	38 breathe	advmod
40	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 breathe	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	44 throat	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 throat	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 throat	nmod:poss
44	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 breathe	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 attain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	can	such Wisp			before the devil's state coach	to the honor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund					of a runner	tree rules
3	wear	future	person	clothes of fiery yellow		then		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
4	breathe	present	person not said here	flames	person's throat		forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=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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