Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 106

One day--it was the watchman's birthday--the old woman approached the lamp, smiling to herself, and said, "I will have an illumination to-day in honor of my old man."

Who acts: corner, old woman · What happens: be, approach, smile, say, have, honor · To what, where: birthday, lamp, woman, illumination, honor, old man · 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 (corner, old woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	obl:unmarked
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 birthday	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 birthday	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 birthday	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watchman	det
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birthday	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 watchman	case
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	nsubj
14	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smiling	punct
18	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 approached	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 herself	case
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 smiling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 approached	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 illumination	det
30	illumination	illumination	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 to	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 honor	case
35	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 man	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 man	nmod:poss
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 man	amod
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 honor	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	corner	the watchman's birthday				tree rules
2	approach	past	the old woman	the lamp			day	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
3	smile	gerund	the old woman not said here		woman			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	future	the old woman = woman	a illumination		honor of my old man	day	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illumination=Patient
6	honor in a quote			my old man				nom honor «communication transitive»: of=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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