Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 9

The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office.

What happens: hang up, enter · To what, where: 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: 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	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 hung	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hung	aux:pass
6	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hung	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 evening	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 evening	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 evening	advmod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 entered	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 watchman	det
14	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 entered	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 man	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
18	robust	robust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watchman	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watchman	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 entered	aux
23	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hung	advcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 duties	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 duties	det
26	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 entered	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 office	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 office	nmod:poss
29	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 duties	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	past · perfect · passive		the lamp			evening	first property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	enter	past · perfect · passive		the watchman and a robust young man				upon the duties of man's office	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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