Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 27
These and similar reflections occupied the old street lamp, on this the last time that his light would shine.
Who acts: similar reflections, light, thing · What happens: occupy, shine, light · To what, where: old street lamp, last time
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 (similar reflections, light, thing), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 reflections | det |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 reflections | cc |
| 3 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reflections | amod |
| 4 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occupied | nsubj |
| 5 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lamp | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lamp | amod |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lamp | compound |
| 9 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occupied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occupied | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 shine | obj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 light | nmod:poss |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shine | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 shine | aux |
| 20 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | this similar reflections | the old street lamp | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lamp=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | shine | would | thing's light | the last time | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | light | thing | 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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