---
title: None of these thoughts were uttered aloud, however; for he was a goo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: None of these thoughts were uttered aloud, however; for he was a good, honorable old lamp, who would not willingly do harm to any one, especially to those in authority. Who acts: watchman, good honorable old lamp. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Stre
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Old Street Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/) / 18

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
None of these thoughts were uttered aloud, however; for he was a good, honorable old lamp, who would not willingly do harm to any one, especially to those in authority.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** watchman, good honorable old lamp · **What happens:** utter, be, not do · **To what, where:** None, harm, one

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (watchman, good honorable old lamp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:133:18
# text = None of these thoughts were uttered aloud, however; for he was a good, honorable old lamp, who would not willingly do harm to any one, especially to those in authority.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | None |  |  |  | aloud, however *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | watchman |  |  |  |  | for a good honorable old lamp | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | would | a good honorable old lamp | harm | any one |  |  | to a good honorable old lamp; willingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/19/)
- ↑ back to [The Old Street Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/)