Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 227

He goes into the church, but not for the sake of the service; and perhaps he may enter into one or other of the priests.

Who acts: town · What happens: go, enter · To what, where: church

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 (town), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sake	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sake	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sake	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sake	det
11	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 church	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 service	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 service	det
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sake	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 enter	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 enter	cc
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 enter	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 enter	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 enter	aux
20	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 enter	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 other	cc
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 priests	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 priests	det
27	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 other	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	town			the church but the sake of the service			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location
2	enter	may	town					into one; perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into one=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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