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title: These and similar reflections occupied the old street lamp, on this… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These and similar reflections occupied the old street lamp, on this the last time that his light would shine. Who acts: similar reflections, light, thing. 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 27

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These and similar reflections occupied the old street lamp, on this the last time that his light would shine.

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**Who acts:** similar reflections, light, thing · **What happens:** occupy, shine, light · **To what, where:** old street lamp, last time

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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 (similar reflections, light, thing), 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:pg27200:133:27
# text = These and similar reflections occupied the old street lamp, on this the last time that his light would shine.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | this similar reflections | the old street lamp |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lamp=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shine** | would | thing's light | the last time |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  | thing |  |  |  |  |  | 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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