Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 55

We are like the goblin; we all go to visit the huckster "because of the jam."

Who acts: We · What happens: be, go, visit · To what, where: 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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 goblin	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goblin	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 goblin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goblin	det
5	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goblin	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 huckster	det
13	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 huckster	punct
15	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 jam	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 because	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jam	det
18	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 goblin	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goblin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	We		like the goblin	tree rules
2	go	present	we			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	visit	to-infinitive	we not said here	the huckster	because the jam	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huckster=Co-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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