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title: I know every house, every balcony, every shop in this narrow cut-off… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I know every house, every balcony, every shop in this narrow cut-off corner, where I am denied the sight of this great mighty city. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 63

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I know every house, every balcony, every shop in this narrow cut-off corner, where I am denied the sight of this great mighty city.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** know, deny, sight · **To what, where:** house, narrow off corner, I, great mighty city

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. 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.

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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:pg27200:25:63
# text = I know every house, every balcony, every shop in this narrow cut-off corner, where I am denied the sight of this great mighty city.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I | every house and every balcony and every shop |  | narrow off corner |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deny** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme sight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | great mighty city |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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