--- title: One day--it was the watchman's birthday--the old woman approached th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: One day--it was the watchman's birthday--the old woman approached the lamp, smiling to herself, and said, "I will have an illumination to-day in honor of my old man." Who acts: corner, old woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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, old woman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:133:106 # text = One day--it was the watchman's birthday--the old woman approached the lamp, smiling to herself, and said, "I will have an illumination to-day in honor of my old man." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 illumination illumination NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | corner | the watchman's birthday | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **approach** | past | the old woman | the lamp | | | day | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | | 3 | **smile** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | | woman | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the old woman *= woman* | a illumination | | honor of my old man | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illumination=Patient | | 6 | **honor** *in a quote* | | | my old man | | | | | nom honor «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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/107/) - ↑ back to [The Old Street Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/)