Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 15

All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be.

Who acts: people, cloth, all, neighbors · What happens: hear, be, learn, prove

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 (people, cloth, all, neighbors), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	nsubj
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 property	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 property	det
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 property	amod
12	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cloth	det
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 possess	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 possess	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 possess	mark
17	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 property	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 anxious	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 anxious	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 anxious	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 anxious	cop
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heard	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 learn	mark
24	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 anxious	advcl
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 wise	advmod
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 learn	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ignorant	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 ignorant	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 ignorant	advmod
30	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heard	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 prove	punct
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neighbors	nmod:poss
33	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 prove	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 prove	aux
35	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ignorant	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 be	mark
37	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 prove	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	all people throughout the city	of the wonderful property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of property=Stimulus
2	is	past	the cloth	possess property	tree rules
3	is	past	all	anxious property	tree rules
4	learn	to-infinitive	all not said here	wise property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	prove	might	people's neighbors		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be	to-infinitive	people's neighbors not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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