Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 89

They were now eating their supper, while the old street lamp, as we have heard, lay in the grandfather's arm-chair near the stove.

Who acts: clock, we · What happens: eat, hear, lay · To what, where: supper, arm 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 (clock, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 eating	advmod
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 supper	nmod:poss
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lamp	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 lamp	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lamp	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lamp	amod
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lamp	compound
12	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eating	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
19	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	26 chair	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grandfather	det
22	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chair	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 grandfather	case
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chair	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 arm	punct
26	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 stove	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stove	det
29	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chair	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	clock	clock's supper		now	the old street lamp obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
2	hear	present · perfect	we					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	lay	present	we not said here		the grandfather's arm chair near the stove			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chair=Destination

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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