Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 15

The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable.

Who acts: Flea, nobody, councillor, doors, that · What happens: jump, see, go, assert, have, not jump · To what, where: all

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, nobody, councillor, doors), 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	2 Flea	det
2	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumped	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 went	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 went	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 asserted	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 asserted	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asserted	nsubj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 asserted	advmod
18	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asserted	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 jumped	advmod
22	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 jumped	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 dishonorable	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dishonorable	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 dishonorable	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dishonorable	cop
29	dishonorable	dishonorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumped	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the Flea		high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past	councillor			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	assert	past	doors = door		all property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	councillor			tree rules
6	not jump	past	councillor not said here	all		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory
7	is	past	that		dishonorable property	tree rules

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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