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title: THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP'S IN THE TOWN! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP'S IN THE TOWN! 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 156

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THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP'S IN THE TOWN!

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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:211:156
# text = THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP'S IN THE TOWN!
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	WILL	WILL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	WISP	WISP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'S	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	TOWN	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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