Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 191
"'We want to flame; we will flame--flame!' cried the new-born Will-o'the-Wisps.
Who acts: We, flame · What happens: want, flame, cry, bear · To what, where: flame, born o'the Wisps
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 (We, flame), 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 | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 3 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 flame | mark |
| 6 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 flame | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 flame | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 flame | aux |
| 10 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 flame | punct |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flame | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 flame | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 flame | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wisps | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 born | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 new | punct |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Wisps | amod |
| 20 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 Wisps | aux |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 o'the | punct |
| 22 | o'the | o'the | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Wisps | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 o'the | punct |
| 24 | Wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cried | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | We | flame | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | flame in a quote | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | flame | the born o'the Wisps | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisp=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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