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title: The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought that he could not jump at all. Who acts: Skipjack, last people, King. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 20

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The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought that he could not jump at all.

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**Who acts:** Skipjack, last people, King · **What happens:** stand, think, not jump · **To what, where:** long time considering, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skipjack, last people, King), 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:pg27200:68:20
# text = The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought that he could not jump at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Skipjack	Skipjack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	considering	considering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Skipjack | a long time considering |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer considering=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | last people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **jump** | could | King |  |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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