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title: That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips. Who acts: That, Wisp. 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 182

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That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips.

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**Who acts:** That, Wisp · **What happens:** be, make, smack · **To what, where:** lips

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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: who acts (That, Wisp), 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:pg27200:211:182
# text = That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	16	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wisp	Wisp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	smack	smack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **smack** | future | the Wisp | person's lips |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |

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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.

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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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