Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 14
To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
Who acts: Emperor, weavers · What happens: be, think, have, risk, prefer, send · To what, where: nothing, work, somebody, intelligence, Emperor, affair · Speech: someone speaks here
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, weavers), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 risk | mark |
| 11 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 person | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 person | amod |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 risk | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 prefer | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 prefer | cc |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 prefer | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yet | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 prefer | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 prefer | aux |
| 22 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 23 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 prefer | xcomp |
| 24 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 sending | obj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 somebody | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bring | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bring | mark |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 prefer | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bring | obj |
| 30 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | obj |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 weavers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 weavers | det |
| 33 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bring | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 work | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 work | cc |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 work | nmod:poss |
| 37 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prefer | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 troubled | punct |
| 39 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 troubled | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 troubled | nsubj |
| 41 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prefer | parataxis |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 troubled | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 affair | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 affair | det |
| 45 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 troubled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Emperor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Emperor | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | risk | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | nothing not said here | in Emperor's own person | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | prefer | would | Emperor | weavers's work | yet | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | send not said to happen | gerund | Emperor not said here | somebody | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | intelligence | Emperor | about the weavers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination intelligence=Theme | ||
| 8 | trouble | past | Emperor | Emperor | the affair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 9 | work | weavers = weaver | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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