Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 11

Both of them, the Flea and the Grasshopper, took care to announce who they were, and that they considered themselves entitled to marry a Princess.

Who acts: Flea · What happens: take, announce, be, consider, entitle, marry · To what, where: care, crickets, Princess

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), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Flea	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Flea	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flea	det
6	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Grasshopper	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Grasshopper	det
9	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Flea	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Flea	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 announce	mark
14	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	advcl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	14 announce	advcl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 who	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 who	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 considered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 considered	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 considered	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 considered	nsubj
22	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	parataxis
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 considered	obj
24	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 considered	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 marry	mark
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 entitled	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marry	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	the Flea and the Grasshopper	care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	the Flea and the Grasshopper not said here		vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Flea		tree rules
4	consider	past	Flea	crickets = cricket	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute
5	entitle	past	Flea not said here		tree rules
6	marry	to-infinitive	Flea not said here	a Princess	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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