--- title: No; when I lived in my dear little lane, I could look straight down… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: No; when I lived in my dear little lane, I could look straight down into the ironmonger's shop, and had only three hundred paces to the theatre; and now I've three thousand paces to go, military measurement." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/23/) [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/) / [Our Aunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/) / 23 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 23 No; when I lived in my dear little lane, I could look straight down into the ironmonger's shop, and had only three hundred paces to the theatre; and now I've three thousand paces to go, military measurement." **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** live, look, have, go · **To what, where:** dear little lane, hundred paces, thousand paces This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:139:23 # text = No; when I lived in my dear little lane, I could look straight down into the ironmonger's shop, and had only three hundred paces to the theatre; and now I've three thousand paces to go, military measurement." 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 straight straight ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ironmonger ironmonger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 paces pace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 've have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 compound _ _ 38 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 paces pace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | I | | | my dear little lane | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lane=Location | | 2 | **look** | could | I | | | | | into the ironmonger's shop; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into shop=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | hundred paces | | | | to the theatre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | I | thousand paces and military measurement | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thousand paces and military measurement *not said here* | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/24/) - ↑ back to [Our Aunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/)