Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 23
Then the King said, "The highest leap was taken by him who jumped up to my daughter; for therein lies the point; but it requires head to achieve that, and the Skipjack has shown that he has a head."
Who acts: King, point, Skipjack · What happens: say, take, jump up, lie, require, achieve · To what, where: highest leap, head, that · 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 (King, point, Skipjack), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leap | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 leap | amod |
| 9 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 jumped | nsubj |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 jumped | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jumped | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lies | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 therein | case |
| 22 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 23 lies | obl |
| 23 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 point | det |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lies | nsubj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 requires | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 requires | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 requires | nsubj |
| 29 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 requires | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 achieve | mark |
| 32 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 requires | xcomp |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 achieve | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shown | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shown | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Skipjack | det |
| 37 | Skipjack | Skipjack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shown | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 shown | aux |
| 39 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 requires | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 has | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 has | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 shown | ccomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 head | det |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 requires | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 requires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past · passive | King | the highest leap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jump up in a quote | past | to my daughter result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to daughter=Result | |||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | present | the point | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | require in a quote | present | point | head | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent head=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | achieve in a quote | to-infinitive | point not said here | that | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | show in a quote | present · perfect | the Skipjack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | King | a head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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