Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 4

Gladly would the honest man have rung, and given them in, for a light was still burning, but he did not wish to disturb the other people in the house; so he let them lie. "

Who acts: honest man, light, goloshes · What happens: ring, give, burn, not wish, disturb, let · To what, where: goloshes, other people, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest man, light, goloshes), 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	Gladly	gladly	ADV	_	7 rung	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 rung	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rung	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rung	aux
7	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 let	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 given	cc
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 rung	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 given	obj
12	in	in	ADV	_	10 given	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 burning	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 burning	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 light	det
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 burning	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 burning	advmod
19	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 given	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wish	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 wish	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wish	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wish	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wish	advmod
25	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rung	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 disturb	mark
27	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wish	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 disturb	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 let	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	would · perfect	the honest man				gladly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	give	participle	the honest man not said here	goloshes = golosh				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	burn	past · progressive	a light			still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not wish	past · do-support	light					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	disturb not said to happen	to-infinitive	light not said here	the other people	the house			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
6	let	infinitive	light	goloshes = golosh				tree rules
7	lie	infinitive	goloshes = golosh not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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