Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 9
“I sing so well,” said he, “that sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from infancy, and yet got no house built of cards to live in, grew thinner than they were before for sheer vexation when they heard me.”
Who acts: Grasshopper, cards · What happens: sing, say, chirp, get, build, live in · To what, where: that, infancy, house, Grasshopper · 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, cards), 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 | _ | 3 sing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 sing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chirped | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 chirped | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 chirped | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 grasshoppers | nummod |
| 14 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grasshoppers | amod |
| 15 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chirped | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 chirped | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 chirped | aux |
| 18 | chirped | chirp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 infancy | case |
| 20 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chirped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 got | advmod |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 house | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 cards | case |
| 29 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 built | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 live | mark |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 built | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 live | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grew | punct |
| 34 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | conj |
| 35 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 grew | xcomp |
| 36 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 42 vexation | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 vexation | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 vexation | cop |
| 39 | before | before | ADV | _ | 42 vexation | advmod |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 vexation | case |
| 41 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 vexation | compound |
| 42 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thinner | advcl |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 heard | advmod |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 heard | nsubj |
| 45 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 vexation | acl:relcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 heard | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | Grasshopper | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grasshopper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | chirp in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | infancy | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | no house | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | build in a quote | participle | no house not said here | of cards | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | live in in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | grow in a quote | past | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | past | cards = card | for sheer vexation; before property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | hear in a quote | past | cards = card | Grasshopper | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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