Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 96
And the man asked about the Story, and inquired if the Moor-woman had met it in her journeyings.
Who acts: man, Moor woman, woman · What happens: ask, inquire, meet, journey · To what, where: cask, journeyings
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 (man, Moor woman, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Story | det |
| 7 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inquired | cc |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asked | conj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 met | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 13 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Moor | punct |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 met | aux |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 inquired | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 journeyings | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journeyings | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journeyings | journeying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | about the Story | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about story=Topic | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | the man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the Moor woman | cask | woman's journeyings | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | journey | woman | nom journeying «act transitive»: poss=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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