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title: The huckster could afford this; and therefore the goblin remained wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The huckster could afford this; and therefore the goblin remained with the huckster, which was very cunning of him. Who acts: huckster, goblin. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 4

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The huckster could afford this; and therefore the goblin remained with the huckster, which was very cunning of him.

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**Who acts:** huckster, goblin · **What happens:** afford, remain, be · **To what, where:** this, cunning

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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 (huckster, goblin), 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:pg27200:38:4
# text = The huckster could afford this; and therefore the goblin remained with the huckster, which was very cunning of him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afford** | could | the huckster | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | the goblin |  |  |  |  | with the huckster; therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the huckster | cunning |  |  |  | of huckster | tree rules |

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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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