Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 30
The student no doubt had blown out his candle and gone to bed; but the little goblin remained standing there nevertheless, and listening to the music which still sounded on, soft and beautiful, a sweet cradle-song for the student, who had lain down to rest.
Who acts: little goblin, music, student · What happens: blow out, go, remain, stand, listen, sound on · To what, where: student, bed, sweet cradle song
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 (little goblin, music, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 student | det |
| 2 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blown | aux |
| 6 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 blown | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 candle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blown | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gone | cc |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blown | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 remained | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 remained | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 goblin | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goblin | amod |
| 18 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remained | nsubj |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blown | conj |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 remained | xcomp |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 standing | advmod |
| 22 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 20 standing | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 listening | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 listening | cc |
| 25 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 standing | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 music | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 music | det |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listening | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 sounded | nsubj |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 sounded | advmod |
| 31 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 music | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 sounded | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 soft | punct |
| 34 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 listening | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beautiful | cc |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 soft | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 song | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 song | det |
| 39 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 song | amod |
| 40 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 song | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 cradle | punct |
| 42 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listening | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 student | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 student | det |
| 45 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 song | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lain | punct |
| 47 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 lain | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 lain | aux |
| 49 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 student | acl:relcl |
| 50 | down | down | ADP | _ | 49 lain | compound:prt |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 rest | mark |
| 52 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 lain | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow out | past · perfect · passive | the student | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary candle=Product | |||||
| 2 | go | participle | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | the little goblin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the little goblin not said here | there | nevertheless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | listen | gerund | the little goblin not said here | a sweet cradle song for the student | to the music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme | |||
| 6 | sound on | past | the music | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | lie down | past · perfect | the student | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | rest | to-infinitive | the student not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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