Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 108
The lamp burned through the whole evening, and began to perceive too clearly that the gift of the stars would remain a hidden treasure all his life.
Who acts: lamp, gift · What happens: burn, begin, perceive, remain, gift · To what, where: hidden treasure, stars
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, gift), 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 | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 evening | amod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burned | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 perceive | mark |
| 12 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 clearly | advmod |
| 14 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 12 perceive | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 remain | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gift | det |
| 17 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stars | det |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gift | nmod |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 remain | aux |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 perceive | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 treasure | det |
| 24 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 treasure | amod |
| 25 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 life | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | the lamp | evening | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | perceive | to-infinitive | clearly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | remain | would | the gift of the stars | a hidden treasure | gift's life obl:unmarked | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treasure=Attribute | |||
| 5 | gift | the stars | nom gift «possession 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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