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title: A funeral passed through the street; a young and beautiful woman lay… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A funeral passed through the street; a young and beautiful woman lay on a bier, decked with garlands of flowers, and attended by torches, which quite overpowered my light. Who acts: funeral, torches, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 23

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A funeral passed through the street; a young and beautiful woman lay on a bier, decked with garlands of flowers, and attended by torches, which quite overpowered my light.

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**Who acts:** funeral, torches, my · **What happens:** pass, lie, deck, attend, overpower, light · **To what, where:** funeral, street, bier, light

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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 (funeral, torches, my), 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:pg27200:133:23
# text = A funeral passed through the street; a young and beautiful woman lay on a bier, decked with garlands of flowers, and attended by torches, which quite overpowered my light.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	overpowered	overpower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | a funeral *not said here* |  | the street |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | past | a funeral |  |  | a bier |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bier=Location |
| 3 | **deck** | participle |  | a bier *not said here* |  |  |  | with garlands of flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with garland=Theme |
| 4 | **attend** | participle | a funeral *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by torches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by torch=Theme |
| 5 | **overpower** | past | torches | my light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **light** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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