Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 85
"Pray tell me some more!" said the man.
Who acts: Pray, man · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: man · 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 (Pray, 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 more | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 tell | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Pray | the man = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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