Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 31

He remarked that it would be a great saving of oil if they placed him on the lamp-post.

Who acts: head, first, rays · What happens: remark, be, place · To what, where: great saving, head, lamp post · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (head, first, rays), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remarked	nsubj
2	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 saving	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saving	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 saving	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 saving	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 saving	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saving	amod
9	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remarked	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 oil	case
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	nmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 placed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 placed	nsubj
14	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remarked	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 placed	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 post	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 post	det
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 post	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 lamp	punct
20	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	past	head				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	first	a great saving		of oil	tree rules
3	place a condition, not said to happen	past	rays = ray	head	the lamp post		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on post=Destination

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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