Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 212

Can you tell me how the Will-o'-the-Wisps deport themselves, and how they behave? and in what shapes they have aforetime appeared and led people into crooked paths?"

Who acts: you, Wisps · What happens: tell, deport, behave, appear, lead · To what, where: me, Wisps, shapes, people, crooked paths · 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 (you, 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 '	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 '	det
7	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 '	aux
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 '	punct
9	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	10 '	case
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 deport	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wisps	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 the	punct
14	Wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deport	nsubj
15	deport	deport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 '	parataxis
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 deport	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 behave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 behave	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 behave	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 behave	nsubj
21	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deport	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 appeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 appeared	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 shapes	case
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	26 shapes	det
26	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 appeared	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 appeared	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 appeared	aux
29	aforetime	aforetime	ADV	_	30 appeared	advmod
30	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 behave	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 led	cc
32	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 appeared	conj
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 led	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 paths	case
35	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paths	amod
36	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 led	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	deport	present	the Wisps	Wisps = wisp				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	behave	present	Wisps = wisp					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	appear	present · perfect	Wisps = wisp			what shapes	aforetime property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location
5	lead	past	Wisps = wisp not said here	people		crooked paths		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into path=Destination

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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