Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 47
The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolved to save her blue silk mantle, which she had managed to buy.
Who acts: huckster, servant · What happens: run, get, resolve, save, manage, buy · To what, where: business papers, blue silk mantle
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, servant), 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 | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 papers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 papers | compound |
| 8 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resolved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resolved | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resolved | nsubj |
| 13 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 save | mark |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 resolved | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mantle | amod |
| 18 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mantle | compound |
| 19 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 managed | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 managed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 managed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 managed | aux |
| 24 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mantle | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 buy | mark |
| 26 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 managed | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the huckster | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the huckster not said here | huckster's business papers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | resolve | past | the servant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | servant's blue silk mantle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | manage | past · perfect · passive | servant's blue silk mantle | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | buy | to-infinitive | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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