--- title: "The night raven taught each of the young Will-o'-the-Wisps to say,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "The night raven taught each of the young Will-o'-the-Wisps to say, 'Goo-goo-good,' and to say it in the right place; and that's a great gift which brings its own reward. Who acts: night raven, that, great gift, goo. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (night raven, that, great gift, goo), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:211:200 # text = "The night raven taught each of the young Will-o'-the-Wisps to say, 'Goo-goo-good,' and to say it in the right place; and that's a great gift which brings its own reward. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 13 case _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Wisps wisp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Goo goo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 goo goo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | the night raven | each young | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the night raven *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the night raven *not said here* | goo | | the right place | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Manner | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a great gift | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | a great gift | goo's own reward | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | | 6 | **reward** *in a quote* | | goo | | | | | | nom reward «event 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. - ← previous: [sentence 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/199/) - next →: [sentence 201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/201/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)