Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 36

Only a faint glimmer of light struggled through the horn panes in the little window on the roof, while within sat the old clerk, generally on his bed, singing his evening hymn in a low voice; or he would be moving about in his booth till late in the night, busily employed in many things.

Who acts: Anthony, light · What happens: struggle, sit, sing, move about, employ, glimmer · To what, where: faint glimmer, horn panes, old clerk, evening hymn, low voice, booth

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 (Anthony, light), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 glimmer	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glimmer	det
3	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glimmer	amod
4	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glimmer	nmod
7	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glimmer	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 panes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 panes	det
10	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 panes	compound
11	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 struggled	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 window	amod
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struggled	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 roof	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roof	det
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 window	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 sat	mark
21	within	within	ADP	_	22 sat	mark
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struggled	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clerk	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 clerk	amod
25	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bed	punct
27	generally	generally	ADV	_	30 bed	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bed	nmod:poss
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clerk	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 singing	punct
32	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hymn	nmod:poss
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hymn	compound
35	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 singing	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 voice	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 voice	det
38	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 voice	amod
39	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 singing	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 moving	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 moving	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 moving	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 moving	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 moving	aux
45	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
46	about	about	ADV	_	45 moving	advmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 booth	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 booth	nmod:poss
49	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 moving	obl
50	till	till	SCONJ	_	51 late	mark
51	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 moving	advcl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 night	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 night	det
54	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 late	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 employed	punct
56	busily	busily	ADV	_	57 employed	advmod
57	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 moving	conj
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 things	case
59	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 things	amod
60	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 employed	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glimmer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	struggle	participle		a faint glimmer of light not said here	the horn panes	in the little window on the roof	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past		the old clerk and Anthony's bed			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clerk=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund		Anthony's evening hymn	a low voice		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
4	move about	would · progressive	Anthony		Anthony's booth	about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in booth=Trajectory
5	employ	participle	Anthony not said here		many things	busily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	glimmer		light				nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	hymn		Anthony				nom hymn «communication intransitive»: 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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