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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

punctdetcompoundnsubjdetcasedetobjauxpunctcasepunctpunctdetpunctconjmarkaclpunctpunctcompoundpunctnsubjpunctccomppunctpunctccmarkconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctccnsubjcopdetamodoblnsubjacl:relclnmod:possamodobjpunctroot"PUNCTTheDETnightNOUNravenNOUNtaughtVERBeachDETofADPtheDETyoungNOUNWillAUX-PUNCToADP'PUNCT-PUNCTtheDET-PUNCTWispsNOUNtoPARTsayVERB,PUNCT'PUNCTGooNOUN-PUNCTgooNOUN-PUNCTgoodADJ,PUNCT'PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTsayVERBitPRONinADPtheDETrightADJplaceNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJthatPRON'sAUXaDETgreatADJgiftNOUNwhichPRONbringsVERBitsPRONownADJrewardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 taughtpunct
2ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 ravendet
3nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing4 ravencompound
4ravenravenNOUNNumber=Sing5 taughtnsubj
5taughtteachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6eacheachDETPronType=Tot9 youngdet
7ofofADP_9 youngcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 youngdet
9youngyoungNOUNNumber=Sing5 taughtobj
10WillwillAUXVerbForm=Fin13 'aux
11--PUNCT_13 'punct
12oofADPAbbr=Yes13 'case
13''PUNCT_9 youngpunct
14--PUNCT_17 Wispspunct
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Wispsdet
16--PUNCT_15 thepunct
17WispswispNOUNNumber=Plur13 'conj
18totoPART_19 saymark
19saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf17 Wispsacl
20,,PUNCT_26 goodpunct
21''PUNCT_26 goodpunct
22GoogooNOUNNumber=Sing24 goocompound
23--PUNCT_22 Goopunct
24googooNOUNNumber=Sing26 goodnsubj
25--PUNCT_26 goodpunct
26goodgoodADJDegree=Pos19 sayccomp
27,,PUNCT_28 'punct
28''PUNCT_26 goodpunct
29andandCCONJ_31 saycc
30totoPART_31 saymark
31saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf26 goodconj
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 sayobj
33ininADP_36 placecase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 placedet
35rightrightADJDegree=Pos36 placeamod
36placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing31 sayobl
37;;PUNCT_43 giftpunct
38andandCCONJ_43 giftcc
39thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem43 giftnsubj
40'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 giftcop
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art43 giftdet
42greatgreatADJDegree=Pos43 giftamod
43giftgiftNOUNNumber=Sing19 sayobl
44whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel45 bringsnsubj
45bringsbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 giftacl:relcl
46itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs48 rewardnmod:poss
47ownownADJDegree=Pos48 rewardamod
48rewardrewardNOUNNumber=Sing45 bringsobj
49..PUNCT_5 taughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1teach speech: other in a quotepastthe night raveneach youngvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=Recipient
2say speech: assert in a quoteto-infinitivethe night raven not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assert in a quoteto-infinitivethe night raven not said heregoothe right placevn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Manner
4is a in a quotepresentthata great gifttree rules
5bring in a quotepresenta great giftgoo's own rewardvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
6reward in a quotegoonom 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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