--- title: "In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!" Who acts: world, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Ole the Tower-keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/) / 1 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 1 "In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!" **Who acts:** world, I · **What happens:** go up, not go up This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, I), 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:pg27200:135:1 # text = "In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 8 advmod _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | world | | | | | in the world; always *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **go up** *in a quote* | can | I | | | | now | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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: [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, 207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/207/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/2/) - ↑ back to [Ole the Tower-keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/)