Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 7

In this latter case it might be turned into anything, and he wondered very much whether he would then be able to remember that he had once been a street lamp, and it troubled him exceedingly.

Who acts: theatre, lamp · What happens: turn, wonder, be, remember, trouble · To what, where: lamp, theatre · 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 (theatre, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 case	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 case	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 case	amod
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj:pass
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	aux:pass
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wondered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wondered	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wondered	nsubj
14	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	22 able	advmod
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 able	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 able	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wondered	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 remember	mark
24	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 been	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 been	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 been	aux
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 been	advmod
29	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 remember	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lamp	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lamp	compound
32	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 been	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 troubled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 troubled	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 troubled	nsubj
36	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 troubled	obj
38	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	36 troubled	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	might · passive		lamp		into anything; in this latter case	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in case=Topic into anything=Recipient
2	wonder speech: ask	past	theatre				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	theatre		then	able property	tree rules
4	remember	to-infinitive	theatre not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	be	past · perfect	theatre			once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	trouble	past	lamp	theatre		exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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