Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 13
The old people were thoroughly honest, they had never cheated the lamp of a single drop of the oil provided for it.
Who acts: old people, people, single drop · What happens: be, not cheat, provide · 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 (old people, people, single drop), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 honest | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 honest | cop |
| 5 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 6 honest | advmod |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheated | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cheated | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cheated | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 cheated | advmod |
| 11 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 honest | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lamp | det |
| 13 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cheated | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 drop | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drop | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drop | amod |
| 17 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lamp | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 oil | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oil | det |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provided | obl |
| 21 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drop | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 provided | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old people | honest, thoroughly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not cheat | past · perfect | people | the lamp of a single drop | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Source | ||||
| 3 | provide | past | a single drop not said here | of the oil; for lamp | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for it=Recipient |
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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