Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 35

But the rotten wood and the herring's head declared most solemnly, by all they held sacred, that the glow-worm only gave light at certain times, and must not be allowed to compete with themselves.

Who acts: rotten wood, others, glow worm · What happens: declare, hold, give, not allow, compete · To what, where: 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 (rotten wood, others, glow worm), 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	_	10 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
3	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declared	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 head	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 herring	det
7	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 herring	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wood	conj
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 solemnly	advmod
12	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	10 declared	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 declared	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 held	nsubj
17	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 all	acl:relcl
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 held	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 gave	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 worm	det
22	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 worm	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 glow	punct
24	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 gave	advmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 declared	conj
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 times	case
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 times	amod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 allowed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 allowed	cc
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 allowed	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 allowed	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 allowed	aux:pass
36	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declared	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 compete	mark
38	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 allowed	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 themselves	case
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 compete	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the rotten wood and the herring's head			solemnly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	hold	past	others = other			sacred property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	the glow worm	light	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
4	not allow	must · passive	the rotten wood and the herring's head not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
5	compete not said to happen	to-infinitive	the rotten wood and the herring's head not said here			with others = other	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with themselves=Co-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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