Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 182
That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips.
Who acts: That, Wisp · What happens: be, make, smack · To what, where: lips
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 (That, Wisp), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | cop |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enough | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 simple | det |
| 7 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 smack | aux |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 smack | punct |
| 10 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 smack | mark |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 smack | punct |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wisp | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wisp | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 the | punct |
| 15 | Wisp | Wisp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 smack | nsubj |
| 16 | smack | smack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 simple | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smack | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | That not said here | simple property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | smack | future | the Wisp | person's lips | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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