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title: The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolve… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolved to save her blue silk mantle, which she had managed to buy. Who acts: huckster, servant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 47

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The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolved to save her blue silk mantle, which she had managed to buy.

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**Who acts:** huckster, servant · **What happens:** run, get, resolve, save, manage, buy · **To what, where:** business papers, blue silk mantle

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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, servant), 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:pg27200:38:47
# text = The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolved to save her blue silk mantle, which she had managed to buy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the huckster |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the huckster *not said here* | huckster's business papers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | the servant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | servant's blue silk mantle |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme |
| 5 | **manage** | past · perfect · passive |  | servant's blue silk mantle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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