Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 4
It was this evening at its post for the last time, giving light to the street.
Who acts: lamp, evening · What happens: be, give · To what, where: evening, post, light, street
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, evening), 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 | 4 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evening | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 post | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 post | nmod:poss |
| 7 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 post | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 giving | punct |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 evening | acl |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lamp | this evening | lamp's post for the last time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | this evening not said here | light | the street | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Theme to street=Recipient |
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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