Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 80

The old people sat at their supper, casting friendly glances at the old lamp, whom they would willingly have admitted to a place at the table.

Who acts: old people · What happens: sit, cast, admit · To what, where: supper, friendly glances, old lamp, people

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 (old people), 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	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 supper	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 supper	nmod:poss
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 casting	punct
9	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 glances	amod
11	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 casting	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 lamp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lamp	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lamp	amod
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 casting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 admitted	punct
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 admitted	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 admitted	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 admitted	aux
20	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	22 admitted	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 admitted	aux
22	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lamp	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 admitted	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 table	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 table	det
28	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the old people		people's supper		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=Location
2	cast	gerund	the old people not said here	friendly glances	the old lamp		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at lamp=Destination
3	admit speech: other	would · perfect · passive		people		to a place at the table; willingly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme whom=Location

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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