Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 84

The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it out in his mischief, and flung it up into the yard, where it beat against the window; and now the beer's running out of the cask, and that won't do good to anybody."

Who acts: bung, one, beer, that · What happens: be, pull out, fling up, beat, run, not do · To what, where: cask, bung, mischief, window, good

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 (bung, one, beer, that), 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 bung	det
2	bung	bung	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cask	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cask	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cask	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cask	det
6	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pulled	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 pulled	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pulled	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 imps	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 imps	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 imps	amod
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 imps	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 moor	punct
15	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cask	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 pulled	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 mischief	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mischief	nmod:poss
21	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pulled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flung	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flung	cc
24	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pulled	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 flung	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 flung	compound:prt
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 yard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 yard	det
29	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beat	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 beat	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 beat	nsubj
33	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flung	conj
34	against	against	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 window	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beat	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 beer	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 beer	cc
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 beer	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beer	det
41	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cask	parataxis
42	's	's	PART	_	41 beer	case
43	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 beer	acl
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 cask	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 cask	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cask	det
47	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 running	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 do	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 do	cc
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 do	nsubj
51	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
52	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 do	advmod
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 beer	conj
54	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 do	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 anybody	case
56	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	54 good	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 beer	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bung		the cask		tree rules
2	pull out	past	one of the little moor imps	bung	Holger's mischief		tree rules
3	fling up	past		bung		into the yard	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into yard=Destination
4	beat	past	bung		the window		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Location
5	run	gerund	the beer not said here		the cask		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cask=Trajectory
6	not do	future	that	good			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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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