Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 86
"Yes, wait a little," answered the Moor-woman. "
Who acts: you, Moor woman · What happens: wait, answer · To what, where: little · 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 (you, Moor woman), 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 wait | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 11 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moor | punct |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a little | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Moor woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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