Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 234

"The town will not take that to heart," observed the man; "that will not disturb a single person; for they will all think I'm only telling them a story if I say, 'The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in the town, says the Moor-woman.

Who acts: town, that, poets, Wisp · What happens: not take, observe, not disturb, think, tell, say · To what, where: that, man, single person, story, poets, town · 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 (town, that, poets, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 take	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heart	mark
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct
12	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 disturb	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 disturb	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 disturb	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 disturb	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 disturb	advmod
20	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 disturb	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 think	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 think	aux
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 think	advmod
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 telling	nsubj
31	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 telling	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 telling	advmod
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 think	ccomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 telling	iobj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 story	det
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 telling	obj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 say	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 say	nsubj
39	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 telling	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 says	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	56 says	punct
42	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 town	det
43	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 town	aux
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 town	punct
45	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	54 town	mark
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 town	punct
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 Wisp	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Wisp	det
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 the	punct
50	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 town	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 town	cop
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 town	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 town	det
54	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 says	nsubj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 town	punct
56	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 telling	parataxis
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 woman	det
58	Moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 woman	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 Moor	punct
60	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 says	nsubj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	future	the town	that				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme heart=Destination
2	observe	past	the town not said here	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	not disturb in a quote	future	that	a single person				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
4	think speech: other in a quote	future	poets = poet				all property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	poets = poet	a story	poets = poet			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
6	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	poets = poet					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	future	the Wisp			the town		tree rules
8	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the town					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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