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title: And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind. Who acts: goose, match. A sen
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 24

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And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.

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**Who acts:** goose, match · **What happens:** be, behold, reel, come up, go out, leave behind · **To what, where:** more capital, dish, floor, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose, match), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:24:24
# text = And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	reeled	reel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
42	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	out	out	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
52	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	parataxis	_	_
60	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | more capital |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the goose |  |  | the dish |  | down, hop *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reel** | participle |  | the dish *not said here* |  | the floor |  | with knife in goose's breast and fork; about *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come up** | past | goose |  |  |  |  | to the poor little girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **go out** | past | the match |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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