Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 7

He was considerably heavier, but he was well-mannered, and wore a green uniform, which he had by right of birth; he said, moreover, that he belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family, and that in the house where he then was, he was thought much of.

Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: be, wear, have, say, belong, think · To what, where: green uniform, that, house · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
3	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	4 heavier	advmod
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mannered	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 mannered	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mannered	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mannered	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 mannered	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
11	mannered	mannered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heavier	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wore	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wore	cc
14	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 uniform	det
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 uniform	amod
17	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wore	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 uniform	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 right	case
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 birth	case
25	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 right	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wore	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 moreover	punct
30	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 belonged	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 belonged	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 belonged	nsubj
34	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	40 family	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 family	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 ancient	advmod
38	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 family	amod
39	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 family	amod
40	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 belonged	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 thought	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 thought	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 thought	nsubj:pass
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 house	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 house	det
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 thought	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 was	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 was	nsubj
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 was	advmod
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 thought	aux:pass
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 was	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 thought	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 thought	aux:pass
54	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heavier	advcl
55	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 thought	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	55 much	fixed
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Grasshopper			considerably, heavy property	tree rules
2	is	past	Grasshopper			mannered, well property	tree rules
3	wear	past	Grasshopper not said here	a green uniform			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme
4	have	past	Grasshopper	a green uniform		by right of birth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Grasshopper			moreover property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	belong	past	Grasshopper			to a ancient Egyptian family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other	past · passive		that	the house		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme much=Attribute

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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