Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 6

At the nearest corner, a lamp hung before a picture of the Madonna; but the light it gave was almost useless, for he only perceived it when he came quite close and his eyes fell on the painted figures of the Mother and Child.

Who acts: lamp, light, moon, eyes · What happens: hang, give, be, perceive, come, fall · To what, where: nearest corner, light, painted figures, Mother

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, light, moon, eyes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 corner	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	nsubj
8	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 picture	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 picture	det
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Madonna	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Madonna	det
14	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 picture	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 useless	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 useless	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 useless	nsubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 light	acl:relcl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 useless	cop
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 useless	advmod
23	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hung	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 perceived	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 perceived	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 perceived	nsubj
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 perceived	advmod
28	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 useless	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 perceived	obj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 perceived	advcl
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 close	advmod
34	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 came	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 useless	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 figures	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 figures	det
41	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 figures	amod
42	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fell	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 Mother	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Mother	det
45	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 figures	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Child	cc
47	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Mother	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle	a lamp		the nearest corner	before a picture of the Madonna		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at corner=Location
2	give	past	light	the light not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	is	past	the light				almost, useless property	tree rules
4	perceive	past	moon	light				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	come	past	moon				close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past	moon's eyes		the painted figures of the Mother and Child			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on figure=Location
7	paint	participle						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	figure			the Mother and Child				nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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