Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 23

A funeral passed through the street; a young and beautiful woman lay on a bier, decked with garlands of flowers, and attended by torches, which quite overpowered my light.

Who acts: funeral, torches, my · What happens: pass, lie, deck, attend, overpower, light · To what, where: funeral, street, bier, light

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 (funeral, torches, my), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 funeral	det
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 funeral	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beautiful	cc
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 young	conj
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bier	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bier	det
16	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 decked	punct
18	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bier	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 garlands	case
20	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 decked	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 flowers	case
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 garlands	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 attended	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 attended	cc
25	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lay	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 torches	case
27	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 attended	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 overpowered	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 overpowered	nsubj
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 overpowered	advmod
31	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 torches	acl:relcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 light	nmod:poss
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 overpowered	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		a funeral not said here	the street		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location
2	lie	past	a funeral		a bier		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bier=Location
3	deck	participle		a bier not said here		with garlands of flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with garland=Theme
4	attend	participle	a funeral not said here			by torches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by torch=Theme
5	overpower	past	torches	my light			tree rules
6	light		my				nom light «phenomenon 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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