Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 77

He looked upon it almost as his own child; he had no children, so the lamp was given to him.

Who acts: watchman · What happens: look, have, give · To what, where: children, lamp, watchman

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), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 child	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 given	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lamp	det
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux:pass
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	watchman			upon service; as watchman's own child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme
2	have	past	watchman	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	give	past · passive		the lamp	watchman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient

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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