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title: Soon after, in the middle of the night, the goblin was awoke by a te… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after, in the middle of the night, the goblin was awoke by a terrible noise and knocking against the window shutters and the house doors, and by the sound of the watchman's horn; for a great fire had broken out, and the whole street appeared full of flames. Who acts: terrible noise, whole stree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 43

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Soon after, in the middle of the night, the goblin was awoke by a terrible noise and knocking against the window shutters and the house doors, and by the sound of the watchman's horn; for a great fire had broken out, and the whole street appeared full of flames.

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**Who acts:** terrible noise, whole street · **What happens:** awake, knock, break out, appear · **To what, where:** goblin, window shutters

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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 (terrible noise, whole street), 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:pg27200:38:43
# text = Soon after, in the middle of the night, the goblin was awoke by a terrible noise and knocking against the window shutters and the house doors, and by the sound of the watchman's horn; for a great fire had broken out, and the whole street appeared full of flames.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	awoke	awake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past · passive | a terrible noise | the goblin |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | gerund | a terrible noise *not said here* |  |  | the window shutters and the house doors |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shutter=Location |
| 3 | **break out** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | for a great fire | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | the whole street |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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