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title: What powers I possess!" said the lamp, awaking from his dream; "I co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 118

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What powers I possess!" said the lamp, awaking from his dream; "I could almost wish to be melted down; but no, that must not be while the old people live.

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**Who acts:** I, powers, that, man · **What happens:** possess, say, awake, wish, melt down, not be · **To what, where:** powers, lamp, dream · **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 (I, powers, that, man), 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:pg27200:133:118
# text = What powers I possess!" said the lamp, awaking from his dream; "I could almost wish to be melted down; but no, that must not be while the old people live.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	awaking	awake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
27	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	37	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | I | powers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | powers | the lamp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **awake** *in a quote* | gerund | powers *not said here* |  |  | man's dream |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | could | I |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **melt down** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |
| 6 | **not** **is** | must | that |  |  |  |  | live *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dream** *in a quote* |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition 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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