Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 10

It was thus that the Flea and the Grasshopper gave an account of themselves, and thought they were quite good enough to marry a Princess.

Who acts: house, Flea, cards · What happens: be, give, think, marry, account · To what, where: Flea, account, Princess, cards · 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 (house, Flea, cards), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Flea	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Flea	cop
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 Flea	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 Flea	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flea	det
6	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Grasshopper	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Grasshopper	det
9	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Flea	conj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 themselves	case
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 account	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 good	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 good	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 good	csubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	house	the Flea and the Grasshopper	thus property	tree rules
2	give	past	the Flea and the Grasshopper	a account of cards		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the Flea and the Grasshopper not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	cards = card		enough, good property	tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive		a Princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	account			cards = card		nom account «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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