Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 6

The lamp had very great anxiety about the next day, for he knew that he had to appear for the first time at the town hall, to be inspected by the mayor and the council, who were to decide if he were fit for further service or not;--whether the lamp was good enough to be used to light the inhabitants of one of the suburbs, or in the country, at some factory; and if not, it would be sent at once to an iron foundry, to be melted down.

Who acts: lamp, theatre, mayor, council · What happens: have, know, appear, inspect, decide, be · To what, where: great anxiety, inhabitants, lamp · 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, theatre, mayor, council), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 great	advmod
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anxiety	amod
6	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 knew	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knew	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 appear	mark
19	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appear	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 hall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hall	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hall	compound
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 inspected	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	31 inspected	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 inspected	aux:pass
31	inspected	inspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 appear	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 mayor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mayor	det
34	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 inspected	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 council	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 council	det
37	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mayor	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 decide	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 decide	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 decide	aux
41	to	to	PART	_	42 decide	mark
42	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 council	acl:relcl
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 fit	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fit	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fit	cop
46	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 decide	ccomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 service	case
48	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 service	amod
49	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fit	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 not	cc
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 fit	conj
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 good	punct
54	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	58 good	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 lamp	det
56	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 good	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 good	cop
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
59	enough	enough	ADV	_	58 good	advmod
60	to	to	PART	_	62 used	mark
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 used	aux:pass
62	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 good	advcl
63	to	to	PART	_	64 light	mark
64	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 used	xcomp
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 inhabitants	det
66	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 light	obj
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 one	case
68	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 inhabitants	nmod
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 suburbs	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 suburbs	det
71	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 one	nmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 country	punct
73	or	or	CCONJ	_	76 country	cc
74	in	in	ADP	_	76 country	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 country	det
76	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 inhabitants	conj
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 factory	punct
78	at	at	ADP	_	80 factory	case
79	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	80 factory	det
80	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 inhabitants	conj
81	;	;	PUNCT	_	89 sent	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 sent	cc
83	if	if	SCONJ	_	84 not	mark
84	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	89 sent	advcl
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 not	punct
86	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	89 sent	nsubj:pass
87	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	89 sent	aux
88	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	89 sent	aux:pass
89	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
90	at	at	ADP	_	91 once	case
91	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	89 sent	obl
92	to	to	ADP	_	95 foundry	case
93	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	95 foundry	det
94	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 foundry	compound
95	foundry	foundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 once	obl
96	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 melted	punct
97	to	to	PART	_	99 melted	mark
98	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	99 melted	aux:pass
99	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	89 sent	conj
100	down	down	ADP	_	99 melted	compound:prt
101	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the lamp	great anxiety	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Patient
2	know	past	theatre				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	theatre				tree rules
4	appear	to-infinitive	theatre not said here		time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	inspect	to-infinitive · passive	the mayor and the council				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	decide	past	the council				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	theatre			for further service; fit property	tree rules
8	is	past	the lamp			enough, good property	tree rules
9	use	to-infinitive · passive	the lamp not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality
10	light	to-infinitive	the lamp not said here	the inhabitants of one of the suburbs or the country and some factory			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Product
11	send	would · passive		lamp			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
12	melt down	to-infinitive · passive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»

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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