Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 217
Let the rest write, those who can, and those who cannot likewise.
Who acts: you, rest · What happens: let, write · To what, where: those
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, rest), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 write | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 can | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 those | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 those | cc |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Let | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 likewise | advmod |
| 15 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 13 can | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | present | the rest | those | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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