Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 213
"I believe," replied the man, "that one could tell quite a romance about the Will-o'-the-Wisps, in twelve parts; or, better still, one might make quite a popular play of them."
Who acts: man, one, Wisps · What happens: believe, reply, tell, make, play · To what, where: romance, popular play · 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 (man, one, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 romance | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 romance | det |
| 17 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 parts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 parts | det |
| 20 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 parts | aux |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 parts | punct |
| 22 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 parts | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 parts | punct |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Wisps | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Wisps | det |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 the | punct |
| 27 | Wisps | Wisp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 parts | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 parts | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 parts | case |
| 30 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 parts | nummod |
| 31 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 romance | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 make | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 or | punct |
| 35 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 still | advmod |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 make | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 make | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 41 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 play | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 play | det |
| 43 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 play | amod |
| 44 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 play | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | the man = man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | could | that one | quite romance | about the twelve parts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent romance=Recipient about part=Topic | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | might | one | quite popular play of Wisps | still | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset play=Product | |||
| 5 | play in a quote | Wisps = wisp | nom play «communication intransitive»: of=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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