Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 111

Little black goblins with false lights in their caps danced about the hall; but no one could see the traveller, and he had placed himself just behind the throne where he could see and hear everything.

Who acts: Little black goblins, one, traveller · What happens: dance, see, place, hear · To what, where: caps, traveller, throne, everything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little black goblins, one, traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goblins	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goblins	amod
3	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 danced	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 lights	case
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lights	amod
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goblins	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 caps	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 caps	nmod:poss
9	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 danced	obl
10	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 danced	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 danced	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 traveller	det
21	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 placed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 placed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 placed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 placed	aux
26	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 see	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 placed	obj
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 throne	advmod
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 throne	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 throne	det
31	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 see	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 throne	acl:relcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hear	cc
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 see	conj
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	37 hear	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	Little black goblins with false lights		goblins's caps	about the hall	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cap=Location
2	see	could	no one	the traveller			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer traveller=Stimulus
3	place	past · perfect	traveller	traveller	the throne		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme behind throne=Destination
4	see	could	traveller				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	infinitive	traveller not said here	everything			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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