Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 183
But there's some danger in this, and a great deal of work for a Will-o'-the-Wisp who aspires to play so distinguished a part.
Who acts: danger, Wisp · What happens: be, aspire, play, distinguish, deal · To what, where: part, work
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 (danger, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 's | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 danger | det |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 danger | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deal | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deal | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Wisp | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Wisp | det |
| 17 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 Wisp | aux |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wisp | punct |
| 19 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 Wisp | case |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wisp | punct |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wisp | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wisp | det |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 the | punct |
| 24 | Wisp | wisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 aspires | nsubj |
| 26 | aspires | aspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Wisp | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 play | mark |
| 28 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 aspires | xcomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 distinguished | advmod |
| 30 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 play | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 part | det |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 distinguished | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | some danger in this | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | aspire | present | a Wisp | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | a Wisp not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | distinguish | past | a Wisp not said here | a part | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute part=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deal | work | for a Wisp | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
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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