Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 1

The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else would come, to see the grand sight.

Who acts: Flea, whoever · What happens: want, see, jump, invite, come · To what, where: whole world, grand sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea, whoever), 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 Flea	det
2	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Grasshopper	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Grasshopper	det
5	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Flea	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Skipjack	det
9	Skipjack	Skipjack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	nsubj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 wanted	advmod
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 jump	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 jump	obl
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 jump	aux
18	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
19	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 jump	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 invited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invited	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 invited	nsubj
23	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wanted	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invited	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 come	cc
29	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 come	nsubj
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 whoever	advmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 invited	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sight	det
37	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sight	amod
38	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the Flea and the Grasshopper		once property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Flea and the Grasshopper not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	jump	could			of Flea	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme of they=Trajectory
4	invite	past	Flea	the whole world		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient
5	come	would	whoever			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	whoever not said here	the grand sight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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