Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 97

"I can almost imagine I am seeing it all," she said; and then how the lamp wished for a wax taper to be lighted in him, for then the old woman would have seen the smallest detail as clearly as he did himself.

Who acts: Africa, lamp, man · What happens: imagine, see, say, wish, light, do · To what, where: forest, old woman, man · 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 (Africa, lamp, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 imagine	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 imagine	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 imagine	aux
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 imagine	advmod
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 seeing	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seeing	aux
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 imagine	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seeing	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 it	det
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imagine	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 wished	advmod
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wished	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lamp	det
20	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 taper	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 taper	det
24	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taper	compound
25	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wished	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 lighted	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 lighted	aux:pass
28	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wished	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lighted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 seen	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 woman	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
36	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 seen	aux
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lighted	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 detail	det
41	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 detail	amod
42	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obj
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 clearly	advmod
44	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	39 seen	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 did	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 did	nsubj
47	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	advcl
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 did	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine in a quote	can	Africa			almost property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see in a quote	present · progressive	Africa	forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Africa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish	past	the lamp		then	for a wax taper	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for taper=Theme
5	light	to-infinitive · passive	the lamp not said here			in man	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»
6	see	would · perfect · passive		the old woman	then	clearly property	tree rules
7	do	past	man	man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality

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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