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title: "Here I am now with my rare powers," thought the lamp, "I have facul… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Here I am now with my rare powers," thought the lamp, "I have faculties within me, but I cannot share them; they do not know that I could cover these white walls with beautiful tapestry, or change them into noble forests, or, indeed, to anything else they might wish for." Who acts: lamp, faculties.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 103

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"Here I am now with my rare powers," thought the lamp, "I have faculties within me, but I cannot share them; they do not know that I could cover these white walls with beautiful tapestry, or change them into noble forests, or, indeed, to anything else they might wish for."

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**Who acts:** lamp, faculties · **What happens:** be, think, have, not share, not know, cover · **To what, where:** faculties, white walls, noble forests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lamp, faculties), 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:pg27200:133:103
# text = "Here I am now with my rare powers," thought the lamp, "I have faculties within me, but I cannot share them; they do not know that I could cover these white walls with beautiful tapestry, or change them into noble forests, or, indeed, to anything else they might wish for."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	faculties	faculty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	parataxis	_	_
58	else	else	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl:relcl	_	_
62	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	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 lamp *= lamp* |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the lamp |  |  |  |  | with my rare powers; indeed *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the lamp *= lamp* | faculties |  |  |  | within the lamp *= lamp* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faculty=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **share** *in a quote* | can | the lamp *= lamp* | faculties *= faculty* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | faculties *= faculty* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cover** *in a quote* | could | the lamp *= lamp* | this white walls |  |  |  | with beautiful tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with tapestry=Theme |
| 7 | **change** *in a quote* | infinitive | faculties *= faculty* *not said here* | faculties *= faculty* |  |  |  | into noble forests *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into forest=Result |
| 8 | **wish** *in a quote* | might | faculties *= faculty* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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