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title: He had begged, as a favor, that the mayor and corporation would allo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had begged, as a favor, that the mayor and corporation would allow him to keep the street lamp, in consideration of his long and faithful service, as he had himself hung it up and lit it on the day he first commenced his duties, four-and-twenty years ago. Who acts: watchman, mayor. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 76

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He had begged, as a favor, that the mayor and corporation would allow him to keep the street lamp, in consideration of his long and faithful service, as he had himself hung it up and lit it on the day he first commenced his duties, four-and-twenty years ago.

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**Who acts:** watchman, mayor · **What happens:** beg, allow, keep, have, hang up, light · **To what, where:** watchman, street lamp, consideration, service, duties, long service

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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 (watchman, mayor), 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:pg27200:133:76
# text = He had begged, as a favor, that the mayor and corporation would allow him to keep the street lamp, in consideration of his long and faithful service, as he had himself hung it up and lit it on the day he first commenced his duties, four-and-twenty years ago.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	47	advmod	_	_
47	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past · perfect | watchman |  |  |  |  | as a favor | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **allow** | would | the mayor and corporation |  | watchman |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mayor and corporation *not said here* | the street lamp |  | consideration of watchman's long service |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme in consideration=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | watchman |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hang up** | past | watchman | service |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **light** | past | watchman *not said here* | service |  |  | day |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 7 | **commence** | past | watchman | watchman's duties |  |  |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 8 | **consider** |  |  | watchman's long service |  |  |  |  | nom consideration «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **service** |  | watchman |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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