Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 62
"Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be better still," thought the man; but he could not find it here.
Who acts: Fortune, new charming story, man · What happens: be, think, not find · To what, where: fortune · 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 (Fortune, new charming story, man), 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 | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 better | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 better | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 13 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | compound |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 better | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 better | cop |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 good | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 thought | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 still | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 find | advmod |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 find | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Fortune | as red gold; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | a new charming story | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the man | still | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not find | could | man | fortune | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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