Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 116

The owner of the room was a poet, and a man of intellect; everything he thought or wrote was pictured around him.

Who acts: owner, man, poet · What happens: be, think, write, picture · To what, where: poet, everything

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 (owner, man, poet), 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 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poet	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owner	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poet	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 poet	det
8	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poet	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 intellect	case
14	intellect	intellect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pictured	punct
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 pictured	nsubj:pass
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 everything	acl:relcl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 wrote	cc
20	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thought	conj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pictured	aux:pass
22	pictured	picture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poet	acl
23	around	around	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pictured	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 poet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the owner of the room	a poet		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	past	man not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	picture	past · passive	a poet not said here	everything	around man	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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