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title: But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom and intellect downstairs. Who acts: Goblin. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 74

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But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom and intellect downstairs.

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**Who acts:** Goblin · **What happens:** sit, listen

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goblin), 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:pg5615:2:74
# text = But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom and intellect downstairs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	intellect	intellect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sit** | could | the Goblin |  |  |  |  | long, quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the Goblin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wisdom and intellect; downstairs *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wisdom=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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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