Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 17
The Leap-frog stood still for a long time lost in thought; it was believed at last he would not jump at all.
Who acts: Leap frog, Grasshopper · What happens: stand, lose, believe, not jump · To what, where: long time, thought, last, all · 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, Grasshopper), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 time | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 thought | case |
| 13 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 believed | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 believed | aux:pass |
| 17 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 believed | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 jump | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 jump | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 jump | advmod |
| 23 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 believed | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 jump | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Leap frog | still; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | a long time not said here | thought | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | believe | past · passive | thought | last | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not jump | would | Grasshopper | all | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
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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