Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 214

"You might write that," said the woman, "but it's best let alone."

Who acts: You, woman, play · What happens: write, say, be · To what, where: that · 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, woman, play), 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	_	4 write	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 write	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 write	aux
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 write	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 let	cop
16	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 let	advmod
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 let	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	might	You	that		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	play		alone, let, well property	tree rules

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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