Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 5

One evening the student came into the shop through the back door to buy candles and cheese for himself, he had no one to send, and therefore he came himself; he obtained what he wished, and then the huckster and his wife nodded good evening to him, and she was a woman who could do more than merely nod, for she had usually plenty to say for herself.

Who acts: student, huckster, wife, woman · What happens: come, buy, have, send, obtain, wish · To what, where: shop, candles, one, student, woman, more · 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 (student, huckster, wife, woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 student	det
4	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 shop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shop	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	compound
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
15	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buy	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cheese	cc
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 candles	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 buy	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 send	mark
26	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 came	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 obtained	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 obtained	nsubj
35	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 obtained	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wished	nsubj
38	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 nodded	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 nodded	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 huckster	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 huckster	det
43	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nodded	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wife	cc
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 wife	nmod:poss
46	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 huckster	conj
47	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 obtained	conj
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 evening	amod
49	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nodded	obl:unmarked
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 nodded	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 woman	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 woman	cc
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 woman	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 woman	cop
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 woman	det
57	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 do	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 do	aux
60	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 woman	acl:relcl
61	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	60 do	obj
62	than	than	ADP	_	61 more	fixed
63	merely	merely	ADV	_	64 nod	advmod
64	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 do	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 had	punct
66	for	for	ADP	_	68 had	case
67	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 had	nsubj
68	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 do	conj
69	usually	usually	ADV	_	70 plenty	advmod
70	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 had	obj
71	to	to	PART	_	72 say	mark
72	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 plenty	acl
73	for	for	ADP	_	74 herself	case
74	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	72 say	obl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the student			the shop	evening	through the back door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shop=Initial_Location through door=Destination
2	buy	to-infinitive	the student not said here	candles and cheese				for student	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent candle=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
3	have	past	student	no one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	send	to-infinitive	student not said here	no one not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	student	student				therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
6	obtain	past	student						vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	wish	past	student						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	nod	past	the huckster and huckster's wife		student		evening		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
9	is a	past	wife	a woman					tree rules
10	do	could	a woman	more				nod obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
11	have	past	wife	plenty					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
12	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	wife not said here	plenty not said here				for wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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