Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 28
I jumped to the highest; but in this world a body is required if one wishes to be seen."
Who acts: I, one · What happens: jump, require, wish, see · To what, where: body, world · 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 (I, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 highest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 highest | det |
| 5 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 required | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 required | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 required | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 required | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 required | aux:pass |
| 14 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jumped | conj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 wishes | mark |
| 16 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wishes | nsubj |
| 17 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 required | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wishes | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | I | to the highest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to high=Result | ||||
| 2 | require | present · passive | a body | this world | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | one | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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