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title: But there's some danger in this, and a great deal of work for a Will… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But there's some danger in this, and a great deal of work for a Will-o'-the-Wisp who aspires to play so distinguished a part. Who acts: danger, 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 183

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But there's some danger in this, and a great deal of work for a Will-o'-the-Wisp who aspires to play so distinguished a part.

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**Who acts:** danger, Wisp · **What happens:** be, aspire, play, distinguish, deal · **To what, where:** part, work

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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 (danger, 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:pg27200:211:183
# text = But there's some danger in this, and a great deal of work for a Will-o'-the-Wisp who aspires to play so distinguished a part.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
17	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Wisp	wisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	aspires	aspire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | some danger in this |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **aspire** | present | a Wisp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | a Wisp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **distinguish** | past | a Wisp *not said here* | a part |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute part=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | work |  |  |  | for a Wisp | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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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