Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 46
"That is if I am not melted down," said the lamp. "
Who acts: lamp · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: That · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 melted | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | cop |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 melted | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 melted | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 melted | advmod |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 melted | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lamp | det |
| 14 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | That | melt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lamp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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