Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 3

"Yes, I'll give my daughter to him who jumps highest," said the King, "for it would be mean to let these people jump for nothing."

Who acts: King, it, people · What happens: give, jump, say, be, let · To what, where: daughter, Grasshopper · 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, it, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 jumps	nsubj
12	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	parataxis
13	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 jumps	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 mean	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mean	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mean	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 mean	cop
25	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mean	xcomp
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 jump	nsubj
30	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 let	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 nothing	case
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 jump	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	the King = king	my daughter	Grasshopper		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient
2	jump in a quote	present					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	would	it			mean property	tree rules
5	let not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					tree rules
6	jump in a quote	present	this people			for nothing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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