Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 19

And he would now go in search of it; if he found it, it would beam in new splendor, lovelier than ever.

Who acts: man, search · What happens: go, find, beam, search · To what, where: search, new splendor

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 (man, search), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 search	case
7	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 search	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beam	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beam	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 beam	aux
18	beam	beam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 splendor	case
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 splendor	amod
21	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beam	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lovelier	punct
23	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 splendor	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 lovelier	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	would	man		search of search	now	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
2	find a condition, not said to happen	past	man	search			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	beam	would	search		new splendor		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendor=Location
4	search			search			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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