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title: Yes; as you see, I can even venture under the rays of the lamp, in f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes; as you see, I can even venture under the rays of the lamp, in front of the picture of the Madonna, but I may not enter the church; still from without, and while you are upon my back, I may look in through the open door. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 42

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Yes; as you see, I can even venture under the rays of the lamp, in front of the picture of the Madonna, but I may not enter the church; still from without, and while you are upon my back, I may look in through the open door.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** see, venture, not enter, be, look in, ray · **To what, where:** rays, church, lamp

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg27200:89:42
# text = Yes; as you see, I can even venture under the rays of the lamp, in front of the picture of the Madonna, but I may not enter the church; still from without, and while you are upon my back, I may look in through the open door.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
50	in	in	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	through	through	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **venture** | can | I |  |  | the rays of the lamp | still | in front of the picture of the Madonna | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **enter** | may | I | the church |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | upon my back | tree rules |
| 5 | **look in** | may | I |  |  |  |  | through the open door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | the lamp |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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