Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 1
Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, spend · To what, where: money, dress
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fond | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fond | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fond | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fond | advmod |
| 13 | excessively | excessively | ADV | _ | 14 fond | advmod |
| 14 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Emperor | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 fond | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spent | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 spent | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spent | nsubj |
| 21 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 money | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 money | nmod:poss |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 dress | case |
| 26 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Emperor | there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | a Emperor | of new clothes; excessively, fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | Emperor | Emperor's money | dress | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
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.
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