Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 103

"Here I am now with my rare powers," thought the lamp, "I have faculties within me, but I cannot share them; they do not know that I could cover these white walls with beautiful tapestry, or change them into noble forests, or, indeed, to anything else they might wish for."

Who acts: lamp, faculties · What happens: be, think, have, not share, not know, cover · To what, where: faculties, white walls, noble forests · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lamp, faculties), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 thought	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 powers	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 powers	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 powers	nmod:poss
8	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 powers	amod
9	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 powers	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 powers	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lamp	det
14	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
19	faculties	faculty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
20	within	within	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 share	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 share	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 share	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 share	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 share	advmod
27	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 share	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 know	advmod
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 cover	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 cover	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 cover	aux
37	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	advcl
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 walls	det
39	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 walls	amod
40	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 cover	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 tapestry	case
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tapestry	amod
43	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cover	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 change	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 change	cc
46	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 change	obj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 forests	case
49	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 forests	amod
50	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 change	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 indeed	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 indeed	cc
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 or	punct
54	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 thought	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 anything	punct
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 anything	case
57	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 thought	parataxis
58	else	else	ADV	_	57 anything	advmod
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 wish	nsubj
60	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 wish	aux
61	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 anything	acl:relcl
62	for	for	ADP	_	61 wish	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 anything	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 anything	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the lamp = lamp		here property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the lamp		with my rare powers; indeed property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	the lamp = lamp	faculties	within the lamp = lamp	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faculty=Patient
4	not share in a quote	can	the lamp = lamp	faculties = faculty		tree rules
5	not know in a quote	present · do-support	faculties = faculty			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	cover in a quote	could	the lamp = lamp	this white walls	with beautiful tapestry	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with tapestry=Theme
7	change in a quote	infinitive	faculties = faculty not said here	faculties = faculty	into noble forests result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into forest=Result
8	wish in a quote	might	faculties = faculty			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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