Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 5

His feelings were something like those of an old dancer at the theatre, who is dancing for the last time, and knows that on the morrow she will be in her garret, alone and forgotten.

Who acts: feelings, theatre, she · What happens: be, dance, know, forget · To what, where: something, garret · 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 (feelings, theatre, she), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feelings	nmod:poss
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 something	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 something	cop
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 something	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 dancer	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dancer	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dancer	amod
10	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 those	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 theatre	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 theatre	det
13	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dancer	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dancing	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dancing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dancing	aux
17	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 theatre	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dancing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knows	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knows	cc
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 garret	mark
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 morrow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 morrow	det
28	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 garret	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 garret	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 garret	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 garret	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 garret	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 garret	nmod:poss
34	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knows	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 alone	punct
36	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 garret	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 forgotten	cc
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 knows	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	His feelings	something			like those	tree rules
2	dance	present · progressive	the theatre			time		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	present						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	future	she		her garret		on the morrow; alone property	tree rules
5	forget	participle						tree rules

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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