Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 53

And yet, when the fire was extinguished, and the goblin again began to reflect, he hesitated, and said at last, "I must divide myself between the two; I cannot quite give up the huckster, because of the jam."

Who acts: fire, goblin · What happens: be, begin, reflect, hesitate, say, divide · To what, where: last, goblin, huckster · 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 (fire, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 extinguished	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 extinguished	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 extinguished	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 extinguished	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 extinguished	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 extinguished	cop
8	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goblin	det
12	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 goblin	advmod
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 extinguished	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reflect	mark
16	reflect	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hesitated	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hesitated	nsubj
19	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 extinguished	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hesitated	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 divide	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 divide	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 divide	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 divide	aux
29	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	parataxis
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 divide	obj
31	between	between	ADP	_	33 two	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 two	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 divide	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 give	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 give	advmod
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 give	advmod
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 extinguished	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 give	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 huckster	det
42	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 jam	punct
44	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	47 jam	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	44 because	fixed
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 jam	det
47	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 extinguished	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 extinguished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fire			yet	extinguished property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the goblin					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reflect	to-infinitive	the goblin not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hesitate	past	goblin					vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	goblin not said here		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	divide in a quote	must	goblin	goblin			between the two	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
7	not give up in a quote	can	goblin	the huckster			because the jam	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huckster=Source

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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