Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 53

But she was not the Story of which the man was in search; that she could attest with a Christian certificate of baptism and of vaccination that lay in her drawer.

Who acts: woman, vaccination · What happens: not be, attest, lie, certificate · To what, where: search, drawer, baptism

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 (woman, vaccination), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 search	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 search	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 search	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 search	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Story	det
6	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 search	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 search	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 search	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 search	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 search	case
13	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 attest	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 attest	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 attest	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 attest	aux
18	attest	attest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 search	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 certificate	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 certificate	det
21	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 certificate	amod
22	certificate	certificate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attest	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 baptism	case
24	baptism	baptism	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 certificate	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 vaccination	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 vaccination	case
27	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 certificate	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 vaccination	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 drawer	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 drawer	nmod:poss
32	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 search	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	woman		search		tree rules
2	attest	could	woman			with a Christian certificate of baptism and vaccination	tree rules
3	lie	past	vaccination		woman's drawer		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location
4	certificate			baptism			nom certificate «communication 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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