Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 74

The evening had come, and the lamp was resting in a grandfather's chair, and guess where!

Who acts: evening, lamp · What happens: come, rest, guess · To what, where: chair

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 (evening, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 resting	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 resting	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 resting	aux
10	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 come	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 chair	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grandfather	det
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chair	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 grandfather	case
15	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guess	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 guess	cc
18	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 guess	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest	past · progressive	the lamp	a grandfather's chair	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chair=Location
3	guess	infinitive			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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