--- title: At the nearest corner, a lamp hung before a picture of the Madonna;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At the nearest corner, a lamp hung before a picture of the Madonna; but the light it gave was almost useless, for he only perceived it when he came quite close and his eyes fell on the painted figures of the Mother and Child. Who acts: lamp, light, moon, eyes. 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C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, light, moon, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:41:6 # text = At the nearest corner, a lamp hung before a picture of the Madonna; but the light it gave was almost useless, for he only perceived it when he came quite close and his eyes fell on the painted figures of the Mother and Child. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Madonna Madonna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 quite quite ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | participle | a lamp | | | the nearest corner | before a picture of the Madonna | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at corner=Location | | 2 | **give** | past | light | the light *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the light | | | | | almost, useless *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **perceive** | past | moon | light | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **come** | past | moon | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | moon's eyes | | | the painted figures of the Mother and Child | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on figure=Location | | 7 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **figure** | | | the Mother and Child | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/7/) - ↑ back to [What Happened to the Counsellor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/)