Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 215

"Yes, that's better and more agreeable," the man replied, "for then we shall escape from the newspapers, and not be tied up by them, which is just as uncomfortable as for a Will-o'-the-Wisp to lie in decaying wood, to have to gleam, and not to be able to stir."

Who acts: that, man, we, newspapers · What happens: be, reply, escape, not tie up, lie, decay · To what, where: newspapers, wood · 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 (that, man, we, newspapers), 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 better	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 better	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 better	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 agreeable	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 agreeable	advmod
9	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 better	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 escape	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 escape	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 then	case
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 escape	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 escape	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 escape	aux
21	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 replied	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 newspapers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 newspapers	det
24	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 escape	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tied	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 tied	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 tied	aux:pass
29	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 escape	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 tied	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tied	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 uncomfortable	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 uncomfortable	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 uncomfortable	cop
36	just	just	ADV	_	38 uncomfortable	advmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 uncomfortable	advmod
38	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tied	conj
39	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	45 '	case
40	for	for	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 '	det
42	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 '	aux
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 '	punct
44	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	45 '	case
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 uncomfortable	punct
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 Wisp	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Wisp	det
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 the	punct
49	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 '	appos
50	to	to	PART	_	51 lie	mark
51	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 Wisp	acl
52	in	in	SCONJ	_	53 decaying	mark
53	decaying	decay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 lie	advcl
54	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 decaying	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 have	punct
56	to	to	PART	_	57 have	mark
57	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 lie	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 gleam	mark
59	gleam	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 have	xcomp
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 able	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 able	cc
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 able	advmod
63	to	to	PART	_	65 able	mark
64	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 able	cop
65	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 have	parataxis
66	to	to	PART	_	67 stir	mark
67	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 able	xcomp
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that			good property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		that not said here				tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	escape in a quote	shall	we		the newspapers		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from newspaper=Initial_Location
5	not tie up in a quote	infinitive · passive	newspapers = newspaper				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is in a quote	present				uncomfortable property	tree rules
7	lie in a quote	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	decay in a quote	gerund		wood			tree rules
9	have in a quote	to-infinitive					tree rules
10	gleam in a quote	to-infinitive					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	not is in a quote	to-infinitive				able property	tree rules
12	stir in a quote	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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