Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 198

"'Take that,' they said, 'and then you'll know the higher dance, the most difficult turns and twists--that is to say, if you should find them necessary.

Who acts: maiden, you, that · What happens: take, say, know, twist, be, find · To what, where: that, higher dance, maiden · 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 (maiden, you, that), 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	_	3 Take	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
3	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Take	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 know	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dance	det
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 dance	amod
18	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 turns	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 difficult	advmod
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 turns	amod
23	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dance	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 twists	cc
25	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 say	nsubj:outer
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 say	ccomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	obj
37	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 find	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		that			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	future	you	the higher dance the difficult turns	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
4	twist in a quote	present	you not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	that			say property	tree rules
6	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	you	maiden		necessary property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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