Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 14
This was the lamp's last night in the street, and to-morrow he must go to the town-hall,--two very dark things to think of.
Who acts: This, watchman · What happens: be, go, think · To what, where: last night, street, morrow
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 (This, watchman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lamp | det |
| 4 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lamp | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 morrow | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 night | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hall | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hall | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 town | punct |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 things | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 things | punct |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 things | nummod |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 dark | advmod |
| 28 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 think | mark |
| 31 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 things | acl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 think | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the lamp's last night | the street | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | must | watchman | morrow | to the town hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to hall=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | watchman not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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