Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 20
The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought that he could not jump at all.
Who acts: Skipjack, last people, King · What happens: stand, think, not jump · To what, where: long time considering, all · 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, last people, 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 Skipjack | det |
| 2 | Skipjack | Skipjack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 considering | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 considering | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 considering | compound |
| 7 | considering | considering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 jump | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 jump | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 jump | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 jump | advmod |
| 17 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 jump | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Skipjack | a long time considering | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer considering=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | last people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not jump | could | King | 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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