Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 200
"The night raven taught each of the young Will-o'-the-Wisps to say, 'Goo-goo-good,' and to say it in the right place; and that's a great gift which brings its own reward.
Who acts: night raven, that, great gift, goo · What happens: teach, say, be, bring, reward · To what, where: young, goo, right place, great gift, own reward · 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 (night raven, that, great gift, goo), 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 | _ | 5 taught | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 raven | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raven | compound |
| 4 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | nsubj |
| 5 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 young | det |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 young | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 young | det |
| 9 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | obj |
| 10 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ' | aux |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ' | punct |
| 12 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 ' | case |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 young | punct |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wisps | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wisps | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 the | punct |
| 17 | Wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ' | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Wisps | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 22 | Goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goo | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Goo | punct |
| 24 | goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 good | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 say | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ' | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 say | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 say | mark |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 good | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 say | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 place | amod |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 say | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 gift | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 gift | cc |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 gift | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 gift | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 gift | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 gift | amod |
| 43 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | obl |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 brings | nsubj |
| 45 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 gift | acl:relcl |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 reward | nmod:poss |
| 47 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 reward | amod |
| 48 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 brings | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | the night raven | each young | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the night raven not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the night raven not said here | goo | the right place | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Manner | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | a great gift | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | present | a great gift | goo's own reward | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reward in a quote | goo | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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