Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 233

I do the most insane things I possibly can, and then I tell a poet about it, and thus the whole town gets to know of it directly."

Who acts: I, whole town · What happens: do, tell, get, know · To what, where: insane things, poet · 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, whole 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 insane	advmod
5	insane	insane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
8	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	9 can	advmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tell	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 poet	det
16	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gets	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gets	cc
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 gets	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 town	amod
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gets	nsubj
25	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 know	mark
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gets	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	obl
30	directly	directly	ADV	_	27 know	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	I	the insane things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	a poet	then	about power	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent poet=Recipient about it=Topic
3	get	present	the whole town			thus property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	to-infinitive	the whole town not said here			of power; directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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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