Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 8

Whatever might happen, one thing seemed certain, that he would be separated from the watchman and his wife, whose family he looked upon as his own.

Who acts: Whatever, one thing, wife · What happens: happen, seem, separate, look upon · To what, where: thing

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 (Whatever, one thing, wife), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	parataxis
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seemed	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 separated	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 separated	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 separated	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 separated	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 separated	aux:pass
14	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 seemed	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 watchman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watchman	det
17	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 separated	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 family	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 family	nmod:poss
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wife	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 separated	conj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 looked	compound:prt
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	might	Whatever			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	one thing		certain property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	separate	would · passive		thing	from the watchman	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from watchman=Co-Patient
4	look upon	past	thing's wife and thing's wife and wife's family's family		as thing's own	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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