Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 68

The stars have not thought of this; they suppose that you and every other light must be a wax taper: but I must go down now."

Who acts: faculties, other light, I · What happens: not think, suppose, be, go down · To what, where: stars, wax taper · 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 (faculties, other light, I), 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 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thought	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 suppose	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suppose	nsubj
10	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	parataxis
11	that	that	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 suppose	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taper	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 light	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taper	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 taper	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 taper	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 taper	det
20	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taper	compound
21	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suppose	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 go	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the stars		of this	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	suppose	present	faculties = faculty			that you	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	every other light	a wax taper			tree rules
4	go down	must	I		now	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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