Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 12

The Skipjack said nothing, but it was said of him that he thought all the more; and directly the Yard Dog had smelt at him he was ready to assert that the Skipjack was of good family, and formed from the breastbone of an undoubted goose.

Who acts: Skipjack, Grasshopper, Yard Dog · What happens: say, think, have, be, assert, form · To what, where: nothing, Skipjack, smelt, breastbone · 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 (Skipjack, Grasshopper, Yard Dog), 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 Skipjack	det
2	Skipjack	skipjack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 more	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 more	det
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 thought	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
20	directly	directly	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Dog	det
22	Yard	Yard	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Dog	compound
23	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	advcl
25	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ready	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 assert	mark
32	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 family	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Skipjack	det
35	Skipjack	Skipjack	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 family	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 family	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 family	case
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 family	amod
39	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 assert	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 formed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 formed	cc
42	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 breastbone	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 breastbone	det
45	breastbone	breastbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 formed	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 goose	case
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 goose	det
48	undoubted	undoubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 goose	amod
49	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 breastbone	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Skipjack	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		Skipjack		of Grasshopper	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	think speech: other	past	Grasshopper				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	the Yard Dog	smelt		at Grasshopper; directly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smelt=Patient
5	is	past	Grasshopper			ready property	tree rules
6	assert	to-infinitive	Grasshopper not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	the Skipjack			of good family	tree rules
8	form	participle	the Skipjack not said here		the breastbone of a undoubted goose		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	undoubt	participle					tree rules

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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