Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 23

He had a candle burning still, and the goblin peeped through the keyhole and saw that he was reading in the torn book, which he had brought out of the shop.

Who acts: goblin, candle · What happens: have, burn, peep, see, read, tear · To what, where: candle, goblin, torn book, shop

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, candle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 candle	det
4	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 candle	acl
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 burning	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goblin	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 goblin	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goblin	det
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
11	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 goblin	acl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 keyhole	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 keyhole	det
14	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 peeped	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 reading	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reading	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reading	aux
20	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saw	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 book	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 book	det
23	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 book	amod
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reading	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 brought	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	aux
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 book	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 shop	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 shop	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shop	det
33	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	goblin	a candle			the goblin obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Patient
2	burn	gerund	a candle not said here			still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peep	participle		the goblin not said here			through the keyhole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through keyhole=Theme
4	see	past	goblin not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	read	past · progressive	goblin		the torn book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tear	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring out	past · perfect · passive		the torn book	the shop			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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