Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 4

The huckster could afford this; and therefore the goblin remained with the huckster, which was very cunning of him.

Who acts: huckster, goblin · What happens: afford, remain, be · To what, where: this, cunning

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 (huckster, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huckster	det
2	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afford	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 afford	aux
4	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 afford	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 remained	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remained	cc
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 remained	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goblin	det
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	nsubj
11	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afford	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 huckster	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 huckster	det
14	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cunning	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 cunning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cunning	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 cunning	advmod
19	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 huckster	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cunning	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afford	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	afford	could	the huckster	this		tree rules
2	remain	participle	the goblin		with the huckster; therefore property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the huckster	cunning	of huckster	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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