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title: But in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke, hearing a great noi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke, hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters--people hammering from outside. Who acts: Goblin, people. 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 cla
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83

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But in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke, hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters--people hammering from outside.

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**Who acts:** Goblin, people · **What happens:** awake, hear, knock, hammer · **To what, where:** middle, great noise, shutters

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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, people), 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:pg5615:2:83
# text = But in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke, hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters--people hammering from outside.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
23	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the Goblin |  |  | the middle of the night |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | the Goblin *not said here* | a great noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 3 | **knock** | gerund | the Goblin *not said here* |  |  | the shutters |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shutter=Location |
| 4 | **hammer** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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:** «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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