Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 14

As soon as it was night, and the shop closed, and every one in bed except the student, the goblin stepped softly into the bedroom where the huckster's wife slept, and took away her tongue, which of course, she did not then want.

Who acts: butter, shop, one, wife · What happens: be, close, step, sleep, take away, not want · To what, where: bedroom, tongue

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butter, shop, one, wife), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 night	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soon	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 closed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 closed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shop	det
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closed	nsubj
11	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stepped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stepped	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
18	except	except	ADP	_	20 student	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 student	det
20	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stepped	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goblin	det
23	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	nsubj
24	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 closed	parataxis
25	softly	softly	ADV	_	24 stepped	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 bedroom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bedroom	det
28	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 slept	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 huckster	det
31	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 huckster	case
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slept	nsubj
34	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bedroom	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 took	cc
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stepped	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 took	advmod
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tongue	nmod:poss
40	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 want	obj
43	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	42 which	advmod
44	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 of	fixed
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 which	punct
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 want	nsubj
47	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 want	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 want	advmod
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 want	advmod
50	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tongue	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	butter			as night		tree rules
2	close	participle	the shop					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	step	past	every one in bed except the student		the bedroom		softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Destination
4	sleep	past	the huckster's wife					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take away	past	every one in bed except the student not said here	wife's tongue			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
6	not want	past · do-support	shop	wife's tongue		then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme

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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