Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 112

It stood in a distant walk certainly, but a place pleasant for contemplation; and it carried a light; and was at once useful and ornamental.

Who acts: light · What happens: stand, carry, be · To what, where: distant walk, light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 walk	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 walk	det
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walk	amod
6	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pleasant	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 pleasant	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleasant	nsubj
12	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 contemplation	case
14	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleasant	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	nsubj
18	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 light	det
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 useful	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 useful	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 useful	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 useful	obl
26	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ornamental	cc
28	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 useful	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	light		a distant walk	certainly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in walk=Location
2	carry	past	light	a light			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	is	past				useful property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules

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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