Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 203

A couple of old Alpas, spirits who occupy themselves with Alp-pressing, were also at the feast; and from these the young Will-o'-the-Wisps learned the art of slipping through every key-hole, as if the door stood open before them.

Who acts: spirits, Alp, couple, Wisps, art, door · What happens: occupy, press, be, learn, slip, stand · To what, where: festivities, feast, art, key hole

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 (spirits, Alp, couple, Wisps), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feast	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Alpas	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Alpas	amod
5	Alpas	Alpas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 couple	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spirits	punct
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 couple	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 occupy	nsubj
9	occupy	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spirits	acl:relcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 occupy	obj
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 pressing	mark
12	Alp	Alp	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 pressing	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Alp	punct
14	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 occupy	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 couple	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feast	cop
17	also	also	ADV	_	20 feast	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feast	det
20	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 Will	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Will	cc
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 young	case
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 young	det
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 young	det
26	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Will	obl
27	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 feast	acl:relcl
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 learned	punct
29	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	35 learned	mark
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 learned	punct
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Wisps	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Wisps	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 the	punct
34	Wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 learned	nsubj
35	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Will	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 art	det
37	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 learned	obj
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 slipping	mark
39	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 art	acl
40	through	through	ADP	_	44 hole	case
41	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 hole	det
42	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hole	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 key	punct
44	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 slipping	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 stood	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 stood	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 stood	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stood	nsubj
50	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 learned	conj
51	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 stood	xcomp
52	before	before	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 stood	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 feast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy	present	spirits	festivities = festivity				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
2	press	gerund	Alp					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a couple of old Alpas and spirits		the feast			tree rules
4	learn	past	the Wisps	the art				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
5	slip	gerund	the art not said here		every key hole			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	stand a condition, not said to happen	past	the door			before Wisps = wisp	open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location

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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