Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 3
A goblin lived with the huckster, because at Christmas he always had a large dish full of jam, with a great piece of butter in the middle.
Who acts: goblin · What happens: live, have · To what, where: large dish, Christmas
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goblin | det |
| 2 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 huckster | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huckster | det |
| 6 | huckster | huckster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Christmas | case |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 had | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dish | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dish | amod |
| 16 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dish | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jam | case |
| 19 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 piece | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 piece | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piece | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 piece | amod |
| 24 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 butter | case |
| 26 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piece | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 middle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 middle | det |
| 29 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piece | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a goblin | with the huckster | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with huckster=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | goblin | a large dish | Christmas | always property | tree rules |
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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