Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 13

But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter.

Who acts: goblin, man, huckster · What happens: feel, venture, say, be, sell · To what, where: such things, huckster, householder, best butter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (goblin, man, huckster), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 venture	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 venture	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 venture	aux
11	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 venture	xcomp
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 huckster	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 huckster	det
18	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 things	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 householder	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 householder	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 householder	det
22	householder	householder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 huckster	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sold	cc
24	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 butter	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 butter	amod
27	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sold	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the goblin			angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	venture	should	any man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	any man not said here	such things	a huckster		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to huckster=Recipient
4	is a	past	a huckster	a householder			tree rules
5	sell	past	the goblin not said here	the best butter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme

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.

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