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title: But in later years, when all these,--the watchman, the wife, and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in later years, when all these,--the watchman, the wife, and the lamp--had grown old, she had attended to it, cleaned it, and supplied it with oil. Who acts: lamp, family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 12

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But in later years, when all these,--the watchman, the wife, and the lamp--had grown old, she had attended to it, cleaned it, and supplied it with oil.

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**Who acts:** lamp, family · **What happens:** grow, attend, clean, supply · **To what, where:** lamp

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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, family), 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:pg27200:133:12
# text = But in later years, when all these,--the watchman, the wife, and the lamp--had grown old, she had attended to it, cleaned it, and supplied it with oil.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	supplied	supply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | the lamp |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | past · perfect | family |  | lamp |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
| 3 | **clean** | past |  | lamp |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **supply** | past |  | lamp |  |  |  | with oil | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with oil=Theme |

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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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