Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 113

He was therefore put into the melting-furnace and changed into as elegant an iron candlestick as you could wish to see, one intended to hold a wax taper.

Who acts: you · What happens: put, change, wish, see, intend, hold · To what, where: gift, melting furnace, iron candlestick, one, wax taper

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 (you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 furnace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 furnace	det
7	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 furnace	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 melting	punct
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 changed	cc
11	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	11 changed	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 elegant	case
14	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 changed	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 candlestick	det
16	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 candlestick	amod
17	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 elegant	nsubj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 wish	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wish	aux
21	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 candlestick	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wish	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 intended	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 intended	nsubj:pass
26	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hold	mark
28	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 intended	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 taper	det
30	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taper	compound
31	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		gift	the melting furnace	therefore property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	change	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	could	you	a iron candlestick not said here			tree rules
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	intend	participle · passive		one			tree rules
6	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive		a wax taper			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Theme

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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