Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 7

And now they were past and gone--so people said; yet no Story came and knocked at the door, or gave any tidings of its presence.

Who acts: horses, people, Story · What happens: be, go, say, come, knock, give · To what, where: tidings · 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 (horses, people, Story), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 past	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 past	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 past	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 past	cop
5	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gone	cc
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 past	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 past	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 Story	det
15	Story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knocked	cc
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 tidings	det
26	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gave	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 presence	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 presence	nmod:poss
29	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tidings	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 past	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	horses = horse		now	past property	tree rules
2	go	participle	horses = horse not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	no Story				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	past	no Story not said here			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
6	give	past	no Story not said here	any tidings of door's presence			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme

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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