Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 68

Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that William Tell and Holger Danske never really lived, but yet live in popular story, like the lake yonder, a living evidence for such myths.

Who acts: man, William · What happens: think, read, tell, not live, live · To what, where: town, Holger, popular story · 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 (man, William), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 thought	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reading	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reading	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 reading	aux
10	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reading	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tell	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 Tell	mark
16	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tell	nsubj
17	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Holger	cc
19	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tell	obj
20	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Holger	flat
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 lived	advmod
22	really	really	ADV	_	23 lived	advmod
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Tell	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 live	advmod
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Tell	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 story	case
29	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 story	amod
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lake	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 lake	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lake	det
34	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	parataxis
35	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	34 lake	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 evidence	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 evidence	det
38	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 evidence	amod
39	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lake	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 myths	case
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 myths	amod
42	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 evidence	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the man			then	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	past · perfect · progressive	man		the town		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	William	Holger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent holger=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not live	past	William not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	infinitive			popular story	yet	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location

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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