Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 30
The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and considered how things happened in the world.
Who acts: Grasshopper, things · What happens: seat out, think, consider, happen · To what, where: Grasshopper, ditch, world
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 (Grasshopper, things), 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 Grasshopper | det |
| 2 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 seated | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ditch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ditch | det |
| 8 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 considered | cc |
| 13 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 happened | advmod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 considered | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat out | past | the Grasshopper | Grasshopper | the ditch | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in ditch=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | consider | past | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past | things | the world | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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