Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 41

At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was exactly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.

Who acts: light, Fate, eyes, pictures · What happens: hang, give, be, not observe, fall, represent · To what, where: votive lamp, next corner, light, all, bright colors, known group

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Fate, eyes, pictures), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
7	votive	votive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lamp	amod
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 Madonna	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Madonna	det
11	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 better	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 better	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 light	acl:relcl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 better	cop
19	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hung	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 none	case
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 better	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 better	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 observe	punct
26	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 observe	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 indeed	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 observe	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 observe	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 observe	advmod
31	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hung	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 observe	obj
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 it	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 it	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 it	cop
36	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	38 it	advmod
37	under	under	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 observe	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fell	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	conj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 colors	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 colors	det
46	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 colors	amod
47	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fell	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 pictures	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pictures	det
50	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 colors	nmod
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 represented	nsubj
52	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 pictures	acl:relcl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 group	det
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 known	advmod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 well	punct
56	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 group	amod
57	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 represented	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 Virgin	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Virgin	det
60	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 group	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 Jesus	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Jesus	det
63	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 Jesus	amod
64	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Virgin	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a votive lamp	the next corner	before a Madonna		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme at corner=Destination
2	give	past	light	the light not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	is	past	the light		all		than none; good, little property	tree rules
4	not observe	past · do-support	Fate	light			indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	past	Fate		light		exactly property	tree rules
6	fall	past	Fate's eyes		the bright colors of the pictures			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon color=Location
7	represent	past	the pictures	the known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot group=Theme
8	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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