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title: But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say su… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter. Who acts: goblin, man, huckster. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 13

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But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter.

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**Who acts:** goblin, man, huckster · **What happens:** feel, venture, say, be, sell · **To what, where:** such things, huckster, householder, best butter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (goblin, man, huckster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:38:13
# text = But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	householder	householder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the goblin |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **venture** | should | any man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | any man *not said here* | such things | a huckster |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to huckster=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a huckster | a householder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sell** | past | the goblin *not said here* | the best butter |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme |

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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.

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**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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