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title: The goblin had the same wish; for, with one spring, he was up stairs… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The goblin had the same wish; for, with one spring, he was up stairs and in the student's room, whom he found standing by the open window, and looking quite calmly at the fire, which was raging at the house of a neighbor opposite. Who acts: goblin, stairs, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Ch
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 49

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The goblin had the same wish; for, with one spring, he was up stairs and in the student's room, whom he found standing by the open window, and looking quite calmly at the fire, which was raging at the house of a neighbor opposite.

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**Who acts:** goblin, stairs, fire · **What happens:** have, be, find, stand, look, rage · **To what, where:** same wish, stairs, house

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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 (goblin, stairs, fire), 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:pg27200:38:49
# text = The goblin had the same wish; for, with one spring, he was up stairs and in the student's room, whom he found standing by the open window, and looking quite calmly at the fire, which was raging at the house of a neighbor opposite.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	conj	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	acl	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	neighbor	neighbor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the goblin | the same wish |  |  | spring |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | goblin | stairs and the student's room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | goblin | stairs and the student's room |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | stairs and the student's room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the open window | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | stairs and the student's room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the fire; calmly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fire=Theme |
| 6 | **rage** | past · progressive | the fire |  |  | the house of a neighbor opposite |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |

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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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