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title: I am a poor lad, and live in one of the narrowest of lanes; but I do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I am a poor lad, and live in one of the narrowest of lanes; but I do not want for light, as my room is high up in the house, with an extensive prospect over the neighbouring roofs. Who acts: I, room. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 3

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I am a poor lad, and live in one of the narrowest of lanes; but I do not want for light, as my room is high up in the house, with an extensive prospect over the neighbouring roofs.

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**Who acts:** I, room · **What happens:** be, live, not want · **To what, where:** poor lad, house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6792`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:91:3
# text = I am a poor lad, and live in one of the narrowest of lanes; but I do not want for light, as my room is high up in the house, with an extensive prospect over the neighbouring roofs.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	over	over	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | a poor lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in one of the narrowest of lanes | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
| 3 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | for light | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | present | my room |  |  | the house |  | with a extensive prospect over the neighbouring roofs; high *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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