Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 22

"Now I shall go and tell the student," said the goblin; and with these words he went quietly up the back stairs to the garret where the student lived.

Who acts: goblin, student · What happens: go, tell, say, live · To what, where: student, back stairs · Speech: someone speaks here

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, student), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 student	det
9	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goblin	det
14	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 words	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	up	up	ADP	_	26 stairs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stairs	det
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stairs	compound
26	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 garret	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garret	det
29	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stairs	nmod
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lived	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 student	det
32	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lived	nsubj
33	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 garret	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	shall	the goblin = goblin			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the goblin = goblin not said here	the student				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent student=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the goblin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	goblin		the back stairs to the garret		with this words; quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up stair=Initial_Location
5	live	past	the student					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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