--- title: The Leap-frog said nothing; but people gave it as their opinion, tha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Leap-frog said nothing; but people gave it as their opinion, that he therefore thought the more; and when the housedog snuffed at him with his nose, he confessed the Leap-frog was of good family. Who acts: Leap frog, people, Grasshopper, housedog. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leap frog, people, Grasshopper, housedog), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:16:11 # text = The Leap-frog said nothing; but people gave it as their opinion, that he therefore thought the more; and when the housedog snuffed at him with his nose, he confessed the Leap-frog was of good family. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 housedog housedog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 snuffed snuff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 confessed confess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Leap frog | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 2 | **give** | past | people | frog | | | | as people's opinion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Grasshopper | | | | | therefore *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snuff** | past | the housedog | | | | | at Grasshopper; with Grasshopper's nose | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **confess** | past | Grasshopper | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | the Leap frog | | | | | of good family | tree rules | | 7 | **opine** | | people | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/12/) - ↑ back to [The Leap-frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/)