Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 207
To-day the Will-o'-the-Wisps are in the town, and have taken the matter in hand--but where and how?
Who acts: Wisps, town · What happens: be, take · To what, where: town, matter, hand
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 (Wisps, town), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Will | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Will | det |
| 5 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 town | punct |
| 7 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 town | mark |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 town | punct |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wisps | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wisps | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 the | punct |
| 12 | Wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 town | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 town | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Will | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 town | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 where | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 where | cc |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 how | cc |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 where | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Will | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Wisps | the town | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | the town not said here | the matter | hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent matter=Value in hand=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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