Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 3

“I will give my daughter to him who jumps highest,” exclaimed the King; “for it is not so amusing where there is no prize to jump for.”

Who acts: King, Flea · What happens: give, jump, exclaim, not be, be · To what, where: daughter, Grasshopper, prize · 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 (King, Flea), 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 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 jumps	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 jumps	nsubj
10	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 exclaimed	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 highest	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 highest	punct
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 jumps	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 exclaimed	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 prize	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 prize	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 amusing	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 amusing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 amusing	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 amusing	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 amusing	advmod
24	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 prize	advcl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 is	advmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 prize	cop
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 prize	det
29	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumps	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 jump	mark
31	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 prize	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	31 jump	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 jumps	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	the King = king	my daughter	Grasshopper		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient
2	jump in a quote	present					tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	not is in a quote	present	Flea			amusing property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present		no prize			tree rules
6	jump in a quote	to-infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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