Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 18
“I only hope he is not unwell,” said the house-dog; when, pop! he made a jump all on one side into the lap of the Princess, who was sitting on a little golden stool close by.
Who acts: house dog, Grasshopper, pop, lap · What happens: hope, not be, say, make, sit · To what, where: jump, one side, little golden stool · 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 dog, Grasshopper, pop, lap), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hope | advmod |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 unwell | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unwell | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 unwell | advmod |
| 8 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unwell | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 unwell | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unwell | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dog | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 made | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pop | punct |
| 19 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 pop | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 jump | det |
| 24 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 side | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 side | nummod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 lap | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lap | det |
| 31 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Princess | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 34 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lap | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sitting | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 sitting | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 sitting | aux |
| 38 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 lap | acl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 stool | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 stool | det |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stool | amod |
| 42 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stool | amod |
| 43 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sitting | obl |
| 44 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stool | amod |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 close | fixed |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | the house dog = dog | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Grasshopper | unwell property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the house dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | pop | a jump | one side | into the lap of the Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent jump=Material into lap=Product | ||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | the lap of the Princess | a little golden stool | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location |
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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