Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 37

And when they discovered that he had not the power of naming his successor, they said they were very glad to hear it, for the lamp was too old and worn-out to make a proper choice.

Who acts: others, worm, power, lamp · What happens: discover, have, name, say, be, hear · To what, where: power, successor, proper choice · 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 (others, worm, power, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 discovered	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 discovered	nsubj
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	ccomp
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 power	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 power	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 naming	mark
12	naming	name	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 power	acl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 successor	nmod:poss
14	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 naming	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 glad	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glad	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 glad	advmod
21	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 glad	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 old	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 old	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lamp	det
28	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 old	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 old	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 old	advmod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 glad	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 out	cc
33	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 out	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 out	punct
35	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 old	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 old	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 choice	det
39	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 choice	amod
40	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	discover	past	others = other			vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	worm	the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	name	gerund	the power not said here	worm's successor		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent successor=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	others = other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	others = other		glad property	tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive	others = other not said here	successor		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	is	past	the lamp		old property	tree rules
8	make	to-infinitive	the lamp not said here	a proper choice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product

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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