Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 97
"By the big brewing-vat!" exclaimed the woman, "haven't you got stories enough?
Who acts: big brewing vat, you · What happens: exclaim, not get · To what, where: woman, stories · 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 (big brewing vat, you), 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 | _ | 7 vat | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 vat | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vat | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vat | amod |
| 5 | brewing | brewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vat | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 brewing | punct |
| 7 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 vat | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 vat | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 got | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaimed | conj |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 got | obj |
| 20 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the big brewing vat | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | present | you | stories | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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