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title: "Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot cer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin--not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you. Who acts: goblin blood, child. A senten
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 17

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"Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin--not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you.

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**Who acts:** goblin blood, child · **What happens:** rise, wing, not call, be, have, not wish · **To what, where:** little winged urchin, third glass, spirit, you, tricks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin blood, child), 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:pg27200:137:17
# text = "Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin--not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	urchin	urchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
26	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	very	very	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	off	off	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** *in a quote* | present |  | a little winged urchin |  | the third glass |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location urchin=Theme |
| 2 | **wing** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **call** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | a little winged urchin |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | goblin blood in child's veins |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | child | the spirit of a goblin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **hurt** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **harm** *in a quote* | infinitive | child *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 9 | **play off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | tricks |  |  |  | upon you | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:** «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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