Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 231
But I must now be the woman that will save a good many people.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: be, save · To what, where: woman, good many people
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, woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 woman | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 woman | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 woman | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 save | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | aux |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 woman | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | I | the woman | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | save | future | the woman | a good many people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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