--- title: Hereupon the King said, “There is nothing above my daughter; therefo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Hereupon the King said, “There is nothing above my daughter; therefore to bound up to her is the highest jump that can be made; but for this, one must possess understanding, and the Leap-frog has shown that he has understanding. Who acts: Hereupon, nothing, one, Grasshopper. A sentence of «Andersen' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Leap-frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/) / 19 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 19 Hereupon the King said, “There is nothing above my daughter; therefore to bound up to her is the highest jump that can be made; but for this, one must possess understanding, and the Leap-frog has shown that he has understanding. **Who acts:** Hereupon, nothing, one, Grasshopper · **What happens:** say, be, bound up, make, possess, show · **To what, where:** highest jump, Hereupon, understanding, Leap frog · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Hereupon, nothing, one, Grasshopper), 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:pg1597:16:19 # text = Hereupon the King said, “There is nothing above my daughter; therefore to bound up to her is the highest jump that can be made; but for this, one must possess understanding, and the Leap-frog has shown that he has understanding. 1 Hereupon Hereupon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 10 above above ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 bound bound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 36 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 Leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ _ 48 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hereupon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bound up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Hereupon *not said here* | | | | | therefore *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the highest jump | Hereupon | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | can · passive | | the highest jump | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 6 | **possess** *in a quote* | must | one | understanding | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot understanding=Theme | | 7 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the Leap frog | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Grasshopper | understanding | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/20/) - ↑ back to [The Leap-frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/)