Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 18

None of these thoughts were uttered aloud, however; for he was a good, honorable old lamp, who would not willingly do harm to any one, especially to those in authority.

Who acts: watchman, good honorable old lamp · What happens: utter, be, not do · To what, where: None, harm, one

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 (watchman, good honorable old lamp), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 uttered	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 thoughts	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 thoughts	det
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 None	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uttered	aux:pass
6	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 uttered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	6 uttered	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lamp	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	19 lamp	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lamp	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lamp	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lamp	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lamp	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
17	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lamp	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lamp	amod
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uttered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 do	advmod
24	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lamp	acl:relcl
26	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 those	punct
31	especially	especially	ADV	_	33 those	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 those	case
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 do	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 authority	case
35	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 those	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past · passive		None		aloud, however property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	past	watchman			for a good honorable old lamp	tree rules
3	not do	would	a good honorable old lamp	harm	any one	to a good honorable old lamp; willingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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