Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 76

He had begged, as a favor, that the mayor and corporation would allow him to keep the street lamp, in consideration of his long and faithful service, as he had himself hung it up and lit it on the day he first commenced his duties, four-and-twenty years ago.

Who acts: watchman, mayor · What happens: beg, allow, keep, have, hang up, light · To what, where: watchman, street lamp, consideration, service, duties, long service

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 (watchman, mayor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	aux
3	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 favor	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 favor	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 favor	det
7	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allow	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 allow	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mayor	det
11	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 allow	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 corporation	cc
13	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mayor	conj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 allow	aux
15	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 allow	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 allow	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lamp	compound
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 consideration	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 consideration	case
24	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 service	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 service	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 service	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faithful	cc
29	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 long	conj
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consideration	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 hung	nsubj
36	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 had	ccomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hung	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 hung	compound:prt
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lit	cc
40	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hung	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lit	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 day	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lit	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 commenced	nsubj
46	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 commenced	advmod
47	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 day	acl:relcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 duties	nmod:poss
49	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 commenced	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 ago	punct
51	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 ago	nummod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 ago	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 ago	cc
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 and	punct
55	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 years	nummod
56	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 ago	obl:unmarked
57	ago	ago	ADV	_	34 had	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · perfect	watchman					as a favor	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	allow	would	the mayor and corporation		watchman				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mayor and corporation not said here	the street lamp		consideration of watchman's long service			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme in consideration=Location
4	have	past	watchman					ago property	tree rules
5	hang up	past	watchman	service					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	light	past	watchman not said here	service			day		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
7	commence	past	watchman	watchman's duties				first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
8	consider			watchman's long service					nom consideration «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	service		watchman						nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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