Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 8
"Yonder lies some more of the same sort," said the huckster: "I gave an old woman a few coffee berries for it; you shall have the rest for sixpence, if you will."
Who acts: huckster, you · What happens: lie, say, give, have · To what, where: more, few coffee berries, old woman, rest · 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 (huckster, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 2 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 3 lies | advmod |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 more | det |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lies | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sort | amod |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 huckster | det |
| 14 | huckster | huckster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 berries | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 berries | amod |
| 24 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 berries | compound |
| 25 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 berries | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | aux |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rest | det |
| 33 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 sixpence | case |
| 35 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rest | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 will | punct |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 will | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 will | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | some more of the same sort | yonder property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the huckster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | the huckster = huckster | a few coffee berries | a old woman | for cheese | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient berry=Theme for it=Asset | ||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | the rest | for sixpence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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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