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title: As soon as it was night, and the shop closed, and every one in bed e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it was night, and the shop closed, and every one in bed except the student, the goblin stepped softly into the bedroom where the huckster's wife slept, and took away her tongue, which of course, she did not then want. Who acts: butter, shop, one, wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 14

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As soon as it was night, and the shop closed, and every one in bed except the student, the goblin stepped softly into the bedroom where the huckster's wife slept, and took away her tongue, which of course, she did not then want.

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**Who acts:** butter, shop, one, wife · **What happens:** be, close, step, sleep, take away, not want · **To what, where:** bedroom, tongue

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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 (butter, shop, one, wife), 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:pg27200:38:14
# text = As soon as it was night, and the shop closed, and every one in bed except the student, the goblin stepped softly into the bedroom where the huckster's wife slept, and took away her tongue, which of course, she did not then want.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	except	except	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	42	advmod	_	_
44	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
50	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | butter |  |  |  | as night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | participle | the shop |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **step** | past | every one in bed except the student |  |  | the bedroom |  | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Destination |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | the huckster's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take away** | past | every one in bed except the student *not said here* | wife's tongue |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | shop | wife's tongue |  |  | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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