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title: The goblin caught up the wonderful book which lay on the table, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The goblin caught up the wonderful book which lay on the table, and popped it into his red cap, which he held tightly with both hands. Who acts: wonderful book, goblin, red cap. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 50

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The goblin caught up the wonderful book which lay on the table, and popped it into his red cap, which he held tightly with both hands.

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**Who acts:** wonderful book, goblin, red cap · **What happens:** catch up, lie, pop, hold · **To what, where:** goblin, table, red cap

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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 (wonderful book, goblin, red cap), 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:pg27200:38:50
# text = The goblin caught up the wonderful book which lay on the table, and popped it into his red cap, which he held tightly with both hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | participle |  | the goblin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the wonderful book |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
| 3 | **pop** | past | the goblin | table |  |  |  | into goblin's red cap *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into cap=Result |
| 4 | **hold** | past | goblin's red cap |  |  |  |  | with both hands; tightly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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