--- title: And yet, when the fire was extinguished, and the goblin again began… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And yet, when the fire was extinguished, and the goblin again began to reflect, he hesitated, and said at last, "I must divide myself between the two; I cannot quite give up the huckster, because of the jam." Who acts: fire, goblin. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (fire, goblin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:38:53 # text = And yet, when the fire was extinguished, and the goblin again began to reflect, he hesitated, and said at last, "I must divide myself between the two; I cannot quite give up the huckster, because of the jam." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 yet yet ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 extinguished extinguished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 goblin goblin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 reflect reflect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hesitated hesitate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 divide divide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 30 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 quite quite ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 huckster huckster NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 47 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 44 fixed _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the fire | | | | yet | extinguished *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | the goblin | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **reflect** | to-infinitive | the goblin *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hesitate** | past | goblin | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | goblin *not said here* | | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **divide** *in a quote* | must | goblin | goblin | | | | between the two | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | | 7 | **not** **give up** *in a quote* | can | goblin | the huckster | | | | because the jam | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huckster=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/38/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/38/54/) - ↑ back to [The Goblin and the Huckster](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/38/)