Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 107

And the lamp rattled in his metal frame, for he thought, "Now at last I shall have a light within me," but after all no wax light was placed in the lamp, but oil as usual.

Who acts: lamp, watchman · What happens: rattle, think, have, place · To what, where: metal frame, light, last, all, lamp · 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, watchman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rattled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	nsubj
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 frame	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 frame	nmod:poss
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frame	compound
8	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 have	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 have	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	within	within	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 placed	cc
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 placed	nsubj:pass
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 light	det
31	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 light	compound
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 all	obj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 placed	aux:pass
34	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thought	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 lamp	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lamp	det
37	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 placed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 oil	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 oil	cc
40	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 placed	obl
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 usual	case
42	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 placed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle	participle	the lamp		watchman's metal frame			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frame=Location
2	think speech: other	past	watchman					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have in a quote	shall	watchman	a light	last	now	within watchman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
4	place	past · passive		all	the lamp		as usual; oil obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=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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