Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 1

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who chose to come to see the festival.

Who acts: Flea, they · What happens: want, see, jump, invite, choose, come · To what, where: whole world, festival · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea, they), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Flea	det
2	Flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Grasshopper	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Grasshopper	det
5	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Flea	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 frog	det
9	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frog	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Leap	punct
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	nsubj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 wanted	advmod
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 jump	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 jump	aux
18	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	ccomp
19	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 jump	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 invited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invited	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 invited	nsubj
23	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invited	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chose	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 chose	cc
29	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 chose	dislocated
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 everybody	advmod
31	besides	besides	ADP	_	33 chose	mark
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 chose	nsubj
33	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 invited	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 chose	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 see	mark
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 come	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 festival	det
39	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	a Flea		once property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a Flea not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	jump	could				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	invite	past	they	the whole world		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient
5	choose	past			everybody dislocated	tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive		the festival		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer festival=Stimulus

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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