Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 38
The Story may have knocked without obtaining a hearing; there was none to bid it welcome, and so it may have gone away.
Who acts: none, hearing · What happens: knock, obtain, be, bid, go away · To what, where: Story, hearing
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 (none, hearing), 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 | 2 Story | det |
| 2 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knocked | aux |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 obtaining | mark |
| 7 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 knocked | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hearing | det |
| 9 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtaining | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | conj |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bid | mark |
| 15 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 none | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | obj |
| 17 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bid | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gone | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gone | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 knocked | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | may · perfect · passive | the Story | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | a hearing | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hearing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bid | to-infinitive | none not said here | hearing | welcome property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go away | may · perfect | hearing | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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