Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 10

It had been made a condition with these clerks that they should not marry; so that those who lived to be old had to take care of themselves, to attend to their own comforts, and even to light their own fires, when they had any to light.

Who acts: clerks · What happens: make, not marry, live, be, have, take · To what, where: pepper, clerks, care, own fires, any

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerks), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 condition	det
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 clerks	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 clerks	det
9	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 condition	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 marry	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marry	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 marry	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 marry	advmod
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 clerks	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 those	case
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 lived	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 old	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 old	cop
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 had	advcl
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lived	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 themselves	case
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 take	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 attend	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 attend	mark
32	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 comforts	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 comforts	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 comforts	amod
36	comforts	comfort	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 attend	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 light	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 light	cc
39	even	even	ADV	_	41 light	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 light	mark
41	light	light	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 fires	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 fires	amod
44	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 light	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 had	advmod
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 light	parataxis
49	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 had	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 light	case
51	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 had	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		pepper		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary condition=Product
2	not marry	should	clerks = clerk	this clerks		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	live	past			so those	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive			old property	tree rules
5	have	past				tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive		care	of clerks = clerk	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location
7	attend	to-infinitive			to clerks's own comforts	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to comfort=Theme
8	light	to-infinitive		clerks's own fires		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
9	have	past	clerks = clerk	any	to light	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
10	comfort		clerks = clerk			nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	fire		clerks = clerk			nom fire «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.

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