Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 36

The old lamp assured them that not one of them could give sufficient light to fill the position of a street lamp; but they would believe nothing he said.

Who acts: old lamp, one, others, worm · What happens: assure, give, fill, believe, say · To what, where: others, sufficient light, position, nothing · 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 (old lamp, one, others, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamp	amod
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assured	nsubj
4	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 assured	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 give	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 give	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assured	ccomp
13	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fill	mark
16	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 position	det
18	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fill	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 lamp	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lamp	det
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lamp	compound
22	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 position	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 believe	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 believe	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 believe	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 believe	aux
27	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assured	conj
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 believe	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 nothing	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	assure	past	the old lamp		others = other	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	could	one of others	sufficient light		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	fill	to-infinitive	one of others not said here	the position of a street lamp		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent position=Patient
4	believe	would	others = other	nothing		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	worm			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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