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title: Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of my beams; the eldest was perhaps six years old, the youngest certainly not more than two. ' Who acts: three little children, eldest, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 5

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Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of my beams; the eldest was perhaps six years old, the youngest certainly not more than two. '

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**Who acts:** three little children, eldest, my · **What happens:** play, be, light, beam · **To what, where:** beams

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three little children, eldest, my), 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:pg27200:121:5
# text = Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of my beams; the eldest was perhaps six years old, the youngest certainly not more than two. '
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obl	_	_
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | three little children |  |  |  |  | by the light of my beams | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the eldest |  |  |  | year | the youngest *obl*; old, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | my beams |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **beam** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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