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title: And the lamp rattled in his metal frame, for he thought, "Now at las… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lamp rattled in his metal frame, for he thought, "Now at last I shall have a light within me," but after all no wax light was placed in the lamp, but oil as usual. Who acts: lamp, watchman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 107

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And the lamp rattled in his metal frame, for he thought, "Now at last I shall have a light within me," but after all no wax light was placed in the lamp, but oil as usual.

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**Who acts:** lamp, watchman · **What happens:** rattle, think, have, place · **To what, where:** metal frame, light, last, all, lamp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lamp, watchman), 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:pg27200:133:107
# text = And the lamp rattled in his metal frame, for he thought, "Now at last I shall have a light within me," but after all no wax light was placed in the lamp, but oil as usual.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
31	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rattle** | participle | the lamp |  |  | watchman's metal frame |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frame=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | watchman |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | watchman | a light |  | last | now | within watchman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 4 | **place** | past · passive |  | all |  | the lamp |  | as usual; oil *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in lamp=Destination |

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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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