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title: The third was a glow-worm, and how he found his way there the lamp c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The third was a glow-worm, and how he found his way there the lamp could not imagine, yet there he was, and could really give light as well as the others. Who acts: third, worm, lamp. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 34

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The third was a glow-worm, and how he found his way there the lamp could not imagine, yet there he was, and could really give light as well as the others.

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**Who acts:** third, worm, lamp · **What happens:** be, find, not imagine, give · **To what, where:** glow worm, way, 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 (third, worm, lamp), 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:pg27200:133:34
# text = The third was a glow-worm, and how he found his way there the lamp could not imagine, yet there he was, and could really give light as well as the others.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	really	really	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
31	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	36	cc	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the third | a glow worm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | worm | worm's way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **imagine** | could | the lamp | worm's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | worm |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | could |  | light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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