The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 39

He could never have jumped so high.

Who acts: heron · What happens: not have, jump

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heron), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jumped	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 He	conj
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jumped	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	could	heron not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	jump	past	heron					high property	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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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