Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 50

The goblin caught up the wonderful book which lay on the table, and popped it into his red cap, which he held tightly with both hands.

Who acts: wonderful book, goblin, red cap · What happens: catch up, lie, pop, hold · To what, where: goblin, table, red cap

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 (wonderful book, goblin, red cap), 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	15 popped	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 goblin	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 caught	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl:agent
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 book	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 popped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 popped	cc
15	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 popped	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 cap	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cap	nmod:poss
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cap	amod
20	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 popped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 held	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 held	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cap	acl:relcl
25	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	24 held	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hands	det
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 held	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 popped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch up	participle		the goblin not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the wonderful book		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
3	pop	past	the goblin	table		into goblin's red cap result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into cap=Result
4	hold	past	goblin's red cap			with both hands; tightly property	vn exist-47.1 «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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