Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 118

What powers I possess!" said the lamp, awaking from his dream; "I could almost wish to be melted down; but no, that must not be while the old people live.

Who acts: I, powers, that, man · What happens: possess, say, awake, wish, melt down, not be · To what, where: powers, lamp, dream · 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 (I, powers, that, man), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
2	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 possess	nsubj
4	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 powers	acl:relcl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 powers	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 powers	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 awaking	punct
11	awaking	awake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 dream	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dream	nmod:poss
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awaking	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wish	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 wish	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wish	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wish	aux
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 wish	advmod
20	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	23 melted	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 melted	aux:pass
23	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wish	advcl
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 melted	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 live	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 live	cc
27	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	37 live	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 live	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 live	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 live	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 live	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 live	cop
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 live	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 live	nsubj
37	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	present	I	powers not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	powers	the lamp			tree rules
3	awake in a quote	gerund	powers not said here		man's dream		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish	could	I			almost property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	melt down	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»
6	not is	must	that			live property	tree rules
7	dream in a quote		man				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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