Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 17

How many persons he had lighted on their way, and how much he had seen; as much, very likely, as the mayor and corporation themselves!

What happens: light, see · To what, where: many persons, way, much

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: 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persons	amod
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lighted	nsubj:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lighted	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lighted	aux
6	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lighted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seen	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lighted	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lighted	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 likely	punct
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 likely	advmod
22	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mayor	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 mayor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mayor	det
26	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lighted	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 corporation	cc
28	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mayor	conj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 mayor	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past · perfect · passive		many persons		persons's way		as the mayor persons and corporation	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	see	past · perfect · passive		much					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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