Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 104
The lamp, however, was always kept clean and shining in a corner where it attracted all eyes.
Who acts: corner · What happens: keep, shine, attract · To what, where: lamp, corner, eyes
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 (corner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lamp | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 kept | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 kept | advmod |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shining | cc |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kept | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shining | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 attracted | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 attracted | nsubj |
| 17 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 corner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attracted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the lamp | always, clean, however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | a corner | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location | |||||
| 3 | attract | past | corner | all eyes | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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