Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 226
The Will-o'-the-Wisp can assume all kinds of forms, and appear in every place.
Who acts: Wisp · What happens: assume, appear · To what, where: kinds, place
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 (Wisp), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wisp | det |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 Wisp | aux |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wisp | punct |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 Wisp | case |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wisp | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wisp | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wisp | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 the | punct |
| 9 | Wisp | wisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assume | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 assume | aux |
| 11 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kinds | det |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assume | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forms | case |
| 15 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 appear | cc |
| 18 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 assume | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appear | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | can | the Wisp | all kinds of forms | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | the Wisp not said here | every place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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