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title: The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable. Who acts: Flea, nobody, councillor, doors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 15

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The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable.

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**Who acts:** Flea, nobody, councillor, doors, that · **What happens:** jump, see, go, assert, have, not jump · **To what, where:** all

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea, nobody, councillor, doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:16:15
# text = The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Flea	Flea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	asserted	assert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	dishonorable	dishonorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the Flea |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | councillor |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **assert** | past | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | councillor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **jump** | past | councillor *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
| 7 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | dishonorable *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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