Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 102

So there were now candles enough, but it never occurred to any one to put a little piece in the lamp.

Who acts: candles, thread · What happens: be, not occur, put · To what, where: one, little piece, lamp

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candles, thread), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 candles	advmod
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 candles	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 occurred	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 occurred	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 occurred	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 occurred	advmod
11	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 one	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occurred	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 occurred	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 piece	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 piece	amod
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 lamp	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lamp	det
22	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	candles			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not occur	past	thread		any one		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	to-infinitive	thread not said here	a little piece		the lamp	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in lamp=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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