Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 11

The Leap-frog said nothing; but people gave it as their opinion, that he therefore thought the more; and when the housedog snuffed at him with his nose, he confessed the Leap-frog was of good family.

Who acts: Leap frog, people, Grasshopper, housedog · What happens: say, give, think, snuff, confess, be · To what, where: nothing, frog · 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 (Leap frog, people, Grasshopper, housedog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
2	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Leap	punct
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 said	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 opinion	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 opinion	nmod:poss
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 thought	advmod
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 thought	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 confessed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 confessed	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 snuffed	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 housedog	det
26	housedog	housedog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snuffed	nsubj
27	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 confessed	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 snuffed	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 nose	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nose	nmod:poss
32	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snuffed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snuffed	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 confessed	nsubj
35	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 frog	det
37	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 frog	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Leap	punct
39	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 family	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 family	cop
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 family	case
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 family	amod
43	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 confessed	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Leap frog	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	give	past	people	frog	as people's opinion	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Grasshopper		therefore property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snuff	past	the housedog		at Grasshopper; with Grasshopper's nose	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	confess	past	Grasshopper			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the Leap frog		of good family	tree rules
7	opine		people			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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