Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 42
And when Christmas came again, and brought the dish of jam and the great lump of butter, he liked the huckster best of all.
Who acts: Christmas · What happens: come, bring, like · To what, where: dish, huckster
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 (Christmas), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | advcl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dish | det |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 jam | case |
| 12 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dish | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lump | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lump | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lump | amod |
| 16 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jam | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 butter | case |
| 18 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lump | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 liked | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 liked | nsubj |
| 21 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 huckster | det |
| 23 | huckster | huckster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 liked | obj |
| 24 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 liked | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 best | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Christmas | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the dish of jam and the great lump of butter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | past | Christmas | the huckster | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot huckster=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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