Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 27

The Grasshopper sat without on a green bank, and reflected on worldly things; and he said too, “Yes, a fine exterior is everything--a fine exterior is what people care about.”

Who acts: Grasshopper, fine exterior, people · What happens: sit, reflect, say, be, care · To what, where: everything · 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 (Grasshopper, fine exterior, people), 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 Grasshopper	det
2	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	8 bank	case
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bank	amod
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reflected	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reflected	cc
11	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 things	case
13	worldly	worldly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reflected	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	too	too	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 everything	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 everything	punct
22	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	28 everything	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Yes	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 exterior	det
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 exterior	amod
26	exterior	exterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 everything	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 everything	cop
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 said	ccomp
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 what	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 exterior	det
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 exterior	amod
32	exterior	exterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 what	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 what	cop
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 everything	conj
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 care	nsubj
36	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
37	about	about	ADP	_	36 care	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Grasshopper		without a green bank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reflect	participle	the Grasshopper not said here		on worldly things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on thing=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Grasshopper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	a fine exterior	everything		tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	a fine exterior			tree rules
6	care in a quote	present	people			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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