Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 204
These Alpas offered to carry the youngsters to the town, with which they were well acquainted.
Who acts: Alpas · What happens: offer, carry, acquaint · To what, where: youngsters, town
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 (Alpas), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Alpas | det |
| 2 | Alpas | Alpas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youngsters | det |
| 7 | youngsters | youngster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acquainted | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 acquainted | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acquainted | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 acquainted | advmod |
| 17 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carry | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | this Alpas | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | this Alpas not said here | the youngsters | the town | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youngster=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 3 | acquaint speech: other | past · passive | youngsters = youngster | well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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