Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 47

The Dryad in the tree, who was the Story-mother herself, had here told him the "Dream of the Old Oak Tree."

Who acts: tree · What happens: be, tell, dream · To what, where: Story mother, Dryad, man, Old Oak Tree · 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 (tree), 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 Dryad	det
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dryad	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mother	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mother	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
10	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mother	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Story	punct
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	appos
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 mother	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dryad	punct
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 told	advmod
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Dream	det
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Dream	punct
21	Dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 Tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Tree	det
24	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Tree	amod
25	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Tree	compound
26	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Dream	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the tree	the Story mother			Dryad nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Dryad in the tree	man	here		tree rules
3	dream in a quote			the Old Oak Tree				nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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