Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 2

Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.

Who acts: Three famous jumpers, everyone, jumpers · What happens: be, say, meet · To what, where: jumpers, room · 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 (Three famous jumpers, everyone, jumpers), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 jumpers	nummod
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumpers	amod
3	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 they	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 they	cop
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 say	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 they	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 met	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 say	ccomp
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 met	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 they	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Three famous jumpers	jumpers = jumper			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	would	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	meet	participle	jumpers = jumper		the room	together property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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