Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 17

The Flea sprang so high that no one could see him; and then they asserted that he had not jumped at all.

Who acts: Flea, one, King · What happens: spring, see, assert, have, not jump · To what, where: King, all

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, one, King), 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	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sprang	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 asserted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asserted	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 asserted	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asserted	nsubj
16	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asserted	ccomp
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 jumped	advmod
21	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 jumped	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the Flea				high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	no one	King				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	assert	past	Flea			then		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	King					tree rules
5	not jump	past	King not said here		all			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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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