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title: Then how he shivered, and crept down stairs again to his warm corner… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then how he shivered, and crept down stairs again to his warm corner, where it felt home-like and comfortable. Who acts: light, creature. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 41

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Then how he shivered, and crept down stairs again to his warm corner, where it felt home-like and comfortable.

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**Who acts:** light, creature · **What happens:** shiver, creep down, feel · **To what, where:** stairs

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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 (light, creature), 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:pg27200:38:41
# text = Then how he shivered, and crept down stairs again to his warm corner, where it felt home-like and comfortable.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shivered	shiver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shiver** | past | light |  |  |  | then |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **creep down** | past | light *not said here* | stairs |  |  | again | to light's warm corner | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location stair=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | creature |  |  |  |  | like *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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