Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 105

Strangers looked upon it as lumber, but the old people did not care for that; they loved the lamp.

Who acts: Strangers, old people, people · What happens: look, not care, love · To what, where: 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 (Strangers, old people, people), 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	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 lumber	case
6	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 care	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 care	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 care	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 care	advmod
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 care	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 loved	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 loved	nsubj
19	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loved	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Strangers		upon corner; as lumber	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme
2	not care	past · do-support	the old people		for that	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for that=Theme
3	love	past	people	the lamp		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/105/