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title: “The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He knows not what I term privation. Who acts: poor watchman, watchman, poet. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 74

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“The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He knows not what I term privation.

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**Who acts:** poor watchman, watchman, poet · **What happens:** be, not know, privation

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor watchman, watchman, poet), 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:pg1597:6:74
# text = “The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He knows not what I term privation.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	privation	privation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the poor watchman in the street |  |  |  |  | than I.; far, happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | watchman |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **privation** *in a quote* |  | the poet *= poet* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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