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title: "In the narrow street round the corner yonder--it is so narrow that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "In the narrow street round the corner yonder--it is so narrow that my beams can only glide for a minute along the walls of the house, but in that minute I see enough to learn what the world is made of--in that narrow street I saw a woman. Who acts: corner, beams, I, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 1

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"In the narrow street round the corner yonder--it is so narrow that my beams can only glide for a minute along the walls of the house, but in that minute I see enough to learn what the world is made of--in that narrow street I saw a woman.

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**Who acts:** corner, beams, I, my · **What happens:** be, glide, see, learn, make, beam · **To what, where:** narrow street, walls, world, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner, beams, I, my), 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:pg27200:94:1
# text = "In the narrow street round the corner yonder--it is so narrow that my beams can only glide for a minute along the walls of the house, but in that minute I see enough to learn what the world is made of--in that narrow street I saw a woman.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glide	glide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
37	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
40	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	ccomp	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | corner |  |  | the narrow street round the corner |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glide** *in a quote* | can | my beams |  |  | the walls of the house | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  | minute | enough *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **learn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the world |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | a woman |  | that narrow street |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 7 | **beam** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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