Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 40

There were no lamps in the street, excepting a very small one, which hung at one end of the street, before a picture of the Virgin, which had been painted on the wall.

Who acts: lamps, small one · What happens: be, except, hang, paint · To what, where: small one, one end, picture, wall

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 (lamps, small one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 lamps	det
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lamps	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 excepting	punct
9	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excepting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hung	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 end	nummod
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 street	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 street	det
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 picture	punct
24	before	before	ADP	_	26 picture	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 picture	det
26	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excepting	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Virgin	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Virgin	det
29	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 picture	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 painted	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 painted	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 painted	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 painted	aux:pass
34	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 picture	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 wall	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wall	det
37	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 painted	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	no lamps in the street		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	except	gerund	no lamps in the street not said here	a small one		before a picture of the Virgin	tree rules
3	hang	past	a small one			at one end of the street	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
4	paint	past · perfect · passive		a picture of the Virgin	the wall		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination

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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