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title: The goblins and the satyrs peeped out from beneath the hills, and fl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The goblins and the satyrs peeped out from beneath the hills, and flitted to and fro in the fields, waving blue, red, and green torches, like the glowing sparks in burning paper. Who acts: goblins, glowing sparks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh Ki
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 6

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The goblins and the satyrs peeped out from beneath the hills, and flitted to and fro in the fields, waving blue, red, and green torches, like the glowing sparks in burning paper.

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**Who acts:** goblins, glowing sparks · **What happens:** peep out, flit, fro, wave, glow, burn · **To what, where:** green torches, fields, paper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblins, glowing sparks), 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:pg27200:87:6
# text = The goblins and the satyrs peeped out from beneath the hills, and flitted to and fro in the fields, waving blue, red, and green torches, like the glowing sparks in burning paper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	satyrs	satyr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	flitted	flit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep out** | past | the goblins and the satyrs | green torches and the glowing sparks |  |  |  | from the hills | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme |
| 2 | **flit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  | the fields |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund | the glowing sparks *not said here* | paper |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paper=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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