Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 3

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 · What happens: be, live, not want · To what, where: poor lad, house

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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