Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 19

As many things were recalled to his mind, the light would flash up with sudden brightness; he had, at such moments, a conviction that he would be remembered. "

Who acts: light, watchman · What happens: recall, flash up, have, remember, mind · To what, where: many things, mind, watchman

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 (light, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 recalled	mark
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recalled	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recalled	aux:pass
5	recalled	recall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flash	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mind	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recalled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 recalled	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flash	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 flash	aux
13	flash	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 flash	compound:prt
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 brightness	case
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brightness	amod
17	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flash	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flash	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moments	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 moments	case
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moments	amod
24	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 conviction	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 conviction	det
27	conviction	conviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moments	appos
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 remembered	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remembered	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 remembered	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 remembered	aux:pass
32	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 conviction	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 flash	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 flash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	past · passive		many things	watchman's mind			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mind=Destination
2	flash up	would	the light				with sudden brightness	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brightness=Theme
3	have	past	watchman			moment		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	remember	would · passive		watchman				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
5	mind		watchman					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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