Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 51

"I can give nothing," she replied; "I am on the wane, and no lamps have ever given me light while I have frequently shone upon them."

Who acts: moon, wind · What happens: give, reply, be, shine · To what, where: nothing, wane, lamps · 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 (moon, wind), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wane	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wane	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wane	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wane	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wane	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wane	det
16	wane	wane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 given	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 given	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 lamps	det
20	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 given	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 given	advmod
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 light	amod
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 given	obj
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 shone	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 shone	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shone	aux
29	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	30 shone	advmod
30	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 give	advcl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shone	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	can	moon	nothing				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient light=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	moon					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the wind = wind		the wane			tree rules
4	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		no lamps		ever		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme
5	shine in a quote	present · perfect	the wind = wind				upon clouds = cloud; frequently property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location

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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