Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 189

"'The mortals are drying up our meadows; they've taken to draining.

Who acts: mortals · What happens: dry up, take, drain · To what, where: meadows

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 (mortals), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mortals	det
4	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drying	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drying	aux
6	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 drying	compound:prt
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 meadows	nmod:poss
9	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drying	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 drying	parataxis
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 draining	mark
15	draining	drain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 taken	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dry up in a quote	present · progressive	the mortals	our meadows	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient meadow=Result
2	take in a quote	present · perfect	mortals = mortal		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drain in a quote	gerund	mortals = mortal not said here		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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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