Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 185
"Now, all this I know, and all this I told to the twelve little Will-o'-the-Wisps whom I had on my lap, and who seemed quite crazy with joy.
Who acts: moon · What happens: know, tell, have, seem · To what, where: this, twelve little Will, lap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14582): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 this | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 know | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 this | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 told | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Will | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Will | det |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Will | nummod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Will | amod |
| 18 | Will | Will | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Will | punct |
| 20 | o | of | ADP | _ | 25 Wisps | case |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 o | punct |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wisps | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Wisps | det |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wisps | punct |
| 25 | Wisps | Wisp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Will | nmod |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 had | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Will | acl:relcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 lap | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lap | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seemed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 seemed | cc |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 seemed | nsubj |
| 35 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | conj |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 crazy | advmod |
| 37 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 seemed | xcomp |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 joy | case |
| 39 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 crazy | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | moon | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | moon | this | the twelve little Will of the Wisps | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to will=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | moon | the twelve little Will of the Wisps | my lap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | |||
| 4 | seem in a quote | past | crazy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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