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title: "Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more. Who acts: angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 19

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"Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more.

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**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** live, afflict, manage, walk · **To what, where:** poor sick boy, angel, childhood, crutches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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:pg27200:4:19
# text = "Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	up	up	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	crutches	crutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
46	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | past |  | a poor sick boy |  |  |  | down *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme boy=Location |
| 2 | **afflict** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | angel |  | angel's childhood |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **manage** *in a quote* | could | angel |  |  |  | day |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **walk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | angel *not said here* |  |  | crutches |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crutch=Trajectory |

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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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