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title: The lamp, however, was always kept clean and shining in a corner whe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lamp, however, was always kept clean and shining in a corner where it attracted all eyes. Who acts: corner. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 104

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The lamp, however, was always kept clean and shining in a corner where it attracted all eyes.

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**Who acts:** corner · **What happens:** keep, shine, attract · **To what, where:** lamp, corner, eyes

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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 (corner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:133:104
# text = The lamp, however, was always kept clean and shining in a corner where it attracted all eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the lamp |  |  |  | always, clean, however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  | a corner |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
| 3 | **attract** | past | corner | all eyes |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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.

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**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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