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title: Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room. Who acts: Three famous jumpers, everyone, jumpers. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 2

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Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.

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**Who acts:** Three famous jumpers, everyone, jumpers · **What happens:** be, say, meet · **To what, where:** jumpers, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Three famous jumpers, everyone, jumpers), 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:pg1597:16:2
# text = Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Three famous jumpers | jumpers *= jumper* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | participle | jumpers *= jumper* |  |  | the room |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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