Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 3
It was a most respectable old lamp, which had seen many, many years of service, and now was to retire with a pension.
Who acts: lamp · What happens: be, see · To what, where: respectable old lamp
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lamp | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lamp | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lamp | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 respectable | advmod |
| 5 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lamp | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lamp | amod |
| 7 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lamp | acl:relcl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 many | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seen | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 service | case |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 years | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retire | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retire | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 retire | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 retire | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 retire | mark |
| 23 | retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 lamp | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pension | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pension | det |
| 26 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 retire | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lamp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lamp | a respectable old lamp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | a respectable old lamp | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | now | with a pension; retire property | tree rules |
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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