Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 12

But in later years, when all these,--the watchman, the wife, and the lamp--had grown old, she had attended to it, cleaned it, and supplied it with oil.

Who acts: lamp, family · What happens: grow, attend, clean, supply · To what, where: lamp

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, family), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 years	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 years	case
3	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 these	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 these	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 these	det:predet
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 years	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 watchman	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 watchman	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 watchman	det
12	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 these	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wife	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watchman	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grown	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lamp	det
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grown	nsubj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 lamp	punct
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grown	aux
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 watchman	parataxis
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grown	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 attended	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attended	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 attended	aux
27	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 grown	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attended	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cleaned	punct
31	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 attended	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cleaned	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 supplied	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 supplied	cc
35	supplied	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cleaned	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 supplied	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 oil	case
38	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 supplied	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 years	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	the lamp			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attend	past · perfect	family		lamp		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
3	clean	past		lamp			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	supply	past		lamp		with oil	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with oil=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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