Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 90
"Now it's done," she said; "but I shall have half the beer to brew over again to-morrow, if the weather is suitable.
Who acts: woman, beer, weather · What happens: do, say, have, brew over, be · To what, where: window, beer · 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 (woman, beer, weather), 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 18 beer | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beer | det |
| 18 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 brew | mark |
| 20 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 brew | compound:prt |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 brew | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 morrow | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brew | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 suitable | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 suitable | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 weather | det |
| 29 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 suitable | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 suitable | cop |
| 31 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · passive | window | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | woman | half beer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | brew over in a quote | to-infinitive | half beer not said here | again | to morrow | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the weather | suitable property | tree rules |
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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