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title: "The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do I want more?" Who acts: vault, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 59

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"The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do I want more?"

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**Who acts:** vault, man · **What happens:** be, say, want · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vault, 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:pg27200:190:59
# text = "The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do I want more?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	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 vault of heaven |  |  |  |  | above man | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | man |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | man | more |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute |

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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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