Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 46

Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild chestnut trees lures the wanderer to tread its shades, went the man who was in search of the Story; for here the wind had once murmured something to him of "Waldemar Daa and his Daughters."

Who acts: great avenue, man, avenue · What happens: lure, tread, go, be, murmur, shade · To what, where: wanderer, shades, man, search, wind

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 (great avenue, man, avenue), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	5 part	advmod
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 part	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lures	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 lures	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 avenue	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 avenue	amod
13	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lures	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 trees	case
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trees	amod
16	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trees	compound
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 avenue	nmod
18	lures	lure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wanderer	det
20	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lures	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tread	mark
22	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lures	advcl
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shades	nmod:poss
24	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tread	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 search	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 search	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 search	case
32	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	acl:relcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Story	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Story	det
35	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 search	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 murmured	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 here	case
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 murmured	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 murmured	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 murmured	aux
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 murmured	advmod
43	murmured	murmur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 went	conj
44	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 murmured	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 something	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Waldemar	case
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Waldemar	punct
49	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 something	nmod
50	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Waldemar	flat
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Daughters	cc
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 Daughters	nmod:poss
53	Daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 Waldemar	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lure	present	the great avenue of wild chestnut trees	the wanderer			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Patient
2	tread	to-infinitive	the great avenue of wild chestnut trees not said here	avenue's shades			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shade=Theme
3	go	past		the man			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
4	is	past	the man		search	of the Story	tree rules
5	murmur speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the wind		once property	tree rules
6	shade		avenue				nom shade «state transitive»: poss=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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