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title: How many persons he had lighted on their way, and how much he had se… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How many persons he had lighted on their way, and how much he had seen; as much, very likely, as the mayor and corporation themselves! 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 17

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How many persons he had lighted on their way, and how much he had seen; as much, very likely, as the mayor and corporation themselves!

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**What happens:** light, see · **To what, where:** many persons, way, much

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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: 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:pg27200:133:17
# text = How many persons he had lighted on their way, and how much he had seen; as much, very likely, as the mayor and corporation themselves!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past · perfect · passive |  | many persons |  | persons's way |  | as the mayor  persons and corporation | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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