Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 25

But when the torches had passed from before me, and I could look round, I saw one person alone, standing, leaning against my post, and weeping.

Who acts: I · What happens: pass, look round, see, stand, lean · To what, where: torches, one person, post

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 (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 passed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 passed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 torches	det
4	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 me	case
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 passed	parataxis
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 look	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 person	nummod
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 saw	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 standing	punct
23	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaning	punct
25	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 standing	advcl
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 post	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 post	nmod:poss
28	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaning	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 weeping	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 weeping	cc
31	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		the torches		from me; weeping obl	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from i=Initial_Location
2	look round	could	I			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	I	one person		alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	I not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lean	gerund	I not said here		my post		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against post=Location

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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