Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 63

And so they did, all three, while the old lamp threw a wonderfully strong light all around him.

Who acts: personages, old lamp · What happens: do, throw · To what, where: three, strong light

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 (personages, old 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 three	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 threw	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lamp	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lamp	amod
12	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 light	det
15	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 him	advmod
19	around	around	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	personages = personage	all three					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Eventuality
2	throw	past	the old lamp	a strong light				around wind	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme around he=Destination

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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