Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 49
The goblin had the same wish; for, with one spring, he was up stairs and in the student's room, whom he found standing by the open window, and looking quite calmly at the fire, which was raging at the house of a neighbor opposite.
Who acts: goblin, stairs, fire · What happens: have, be, find, stand, look, rage · To what, where: same wish, stairs, house
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, stairs, fire), 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 goblin | det |
| 2 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wish | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wish | amod |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 spring | nummod |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stairs | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stairs | cop |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 was | compound:prt |
| 17 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spring | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 room | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 student | det |
| 21 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 student | case |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stairs | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 found | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stairs | acl:relcl |
| 28 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 found | xcomp |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 window | det |
| 31 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 window | amod |
| 32 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 standing | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looking | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 looking | cc |
| 35 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 standing | conj |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 calmly | advmod |
| 37 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 35 looking | advmod |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 fire | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fire | det |
| 40 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looking | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 raging | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 raging | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 raging | aux |
| 44 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 fire | acl |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 house | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 house | det |
| 47 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 raging | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 opposite | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 opposite | det |
| 50 | neighbor | neighbor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 opposite | amod |
| 51 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 house | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the goblin | the same wish | spring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | goblin | stairs and the student's room | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | goblin | stairs and the student's room | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | stairs and the student's room not said here | by the open window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | stairs and the student's room not said here | at the fire; calmly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fire=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rage | past · progressive | the fire | the house of a neighbor opposite | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
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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