Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 20

Then the goblin placed the tongue on the coffee mill; and how it did go to be sure!

Who acts: goblin, tongue · What happens: place, go, be · To what, where: tongue, coffee mill

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 (goblin, tongue), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 placed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj
4	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tongue	det
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mill	det
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mill	compound
10	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 go	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 placed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 sure	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sure	cop
19	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	advcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	the goblin	the tongue	the coffee mill	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme on mill=Destination
2	go	past · do-support	tongue					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	tongue not said here				sure 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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