Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 90

It seemed to the lamp as if the whole world had turned round; but after a while the old watchman looked at the lamp, and spoke of what they had both gone through together,--in rain and in fog; during the short bright nights of summer, or in the long winter nights, through the drifting snow-storms, when he longed to be at home in the cellar.

Who acts: It, whole world, old watchman, clock, short bright nights · What happens: seem, turn round, look, speak, go, drift · To what, where: rain, cellar, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, whole world, old watchman, clock), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 lamp	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lamp	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 while	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 watchman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 watchman	amod
21	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 lamp	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lamp	det
25	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 what	case
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 spoke	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gone	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	aux
33	both	both	ADV	_	34 gone	advmod
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 what	acl:relcl
35	through	through	ADP	_	36 together	case
36	together	together	ADV	_	34 gone	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rain	punct
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 rain	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 rain	case
40	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoke	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fog	cc
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 fog	case
43	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rain	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 nights	punct
45	during	during	ADP	_	49 nights	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 nights	det
47	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 nights	amod
48	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 nights	amod
49	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 longed	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 summer	case
51	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nights	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 nights	punct
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 nights	cc
54	in	in	ADP	_	58 nights	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 nights	det
56	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 nights	amod
57	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 nights	compound
58	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 nights	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 storms	punct
60	through	through	ADP	_	65 storms	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 storms	det
62	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 storms	amod
63	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 storms	compound
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 snow	punct
65	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 nights	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 longed	punct
67	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	69 longed	advmod
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 longed	nsubj
69	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
70	to	to	PART	_	73 home	mark
71	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	73 home	cop
72	at	at	ADP	_	73 home	case
73	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 longed	advcl
74	in	in	ADP	_	76 cellar	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 cellar	det
76	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 longed	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			to the lamp	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	turn round a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the whole world			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	the old watchman		while	at the lamp	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lamp=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past		rain and fog			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past · perfect	clock			both property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through together=Initial_Location
6	drift	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	long	past	the short bright nights of summer or the long winter nights and the drifting snow storms	the cellar			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is	to-infinitive	the short bright nights of summer or the long winter nights and the drifting snow storms not said here	home			tree rules

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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