Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 224

I should be thrashed if I were to go to the people and say, 'Look, yonder goes a Will-o'-the-Wisp in his best clothes!'

Who acts: I · What happens: thrash, go, say, look · To what, where: I · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thrashed	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thrashed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrashed	aux:pass
4	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrashed	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thrashed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Look	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Look	punct
17	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 goes	punct
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	20 goes	advmod
20	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thrashed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Wisp	det
22	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 Wisp	aux
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Wisp	punct
24	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	29 Wisp	case
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 Wisp	punct
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Wisp	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wisp	det
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 the	punct
29	Wisp	Wisp	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 goes	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 clothes	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 clothes	nmod:poss
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 clothes	amod
33	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 Wisp	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thrashed	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thrashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thrash	should · passive		I		tree rules
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	I		to the people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	go	present			of a Wisp; yonder property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of wisp=Initial_Location

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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