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title: The student no doubt had blown out his candle and gone to bed; but t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The student no doubt had blown out his candle and gone to bed; but the little goblin remained standing there nevertheless, and listening to the music which still sounded on, soft and beautiful, a sweet cradle-song for the student, who had lain down to rest. Who acts: little goblin, music, student. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 30

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The student no doubt had blown out his candle and gone to bed; but the little goblin remained standing there nevertheless, and listening to the music which still sounded on, soft and beautiful, a sweet cradle-song for the student, who had lain down to rest.

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**Who acts:** little goblin, music, student · **What happens:** blow out, go, remain, stand, listen, sound on · **To what, where:** student, bed, sweet cradle song

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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 (little goblin, music, student), 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:pg27200:38:30
# text = The student no doubt had blown out his candle and gone to bed; but the little goblin remained standing there nevertheless, and listening to the music which still sounded on, soft and beautiful, a sweet cradle-song for the student, who had lain down to rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	down	down	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the student |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary candle=Product |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the little goblin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | the little goblin *not said here* |  |  | there |  | nevertheless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **listen** | gerund | the little goblin *not said here* | a sweet cradle song for the student |  |  |  | to the music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme |
| 6 | **sound on** | past | the music |  |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lie down** | past · perfect | the student |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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