Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 66
"That sentiment does you honor," said the wind; "but for this purpose wax lights will be necessary.
Who acts: sentiment, wind, wax lights · What happens: honor, say, be · 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 (sentiment, wind, wax lights), 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 | _ | 6 honor | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sentiment | det |
| 3 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 honor | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 honor | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 honor | nsubj |
| 6 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honor | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 honor | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 necessary | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 necessary | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 lights | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 lights | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lights | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wax | compound |
| 18 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lights | compound |
| 19 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 necessary | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 necessary | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 necessary | cop |
| 22 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor in a quote | present · do-support | that sentiment | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | this wax lights | necessary property | 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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