Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 16
“I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,” said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, “he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than he is.”
Who acts: Emperor, cloth, one · What happens: send, say, be, see, look · To what, where: faithful old minister, weavers, last · 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, cloth, one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 weavers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weavers | det |
| 11 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Emperor | det |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deliberation | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 deliberation | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 deliberation | det |
| 22 | deliberation | deliberation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 able | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 able | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 able | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 able | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 able | cop |
| 28 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 able | advmod |
| 29 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deliberation | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 able | xcomp |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 looks | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cloth | det |
| 34 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looks | nsubj |
| 35 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | ccomp |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 man | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 man | case |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 man | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 man | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 sense | case |
| 43 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 man | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 suitable | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 suitable | cc |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 suitable | nsubj |
| 48 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 suitable | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 suitable | cop |
| 50 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 suitable | advmod |
| 51 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 man | parataxis |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 office | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 office | nmod:poss |
| 54 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 suitable | obl |
| 55 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 57 is | mark |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 is | nsubj |
| 57 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 suitable | advcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 deliberation | punct |
| 59 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 deliberation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | future | the Emperor = emperor | my faithful old minister | the weavers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to weaver=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Emperor | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | Emperor | able, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | present | the cloth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | cloth | for a man; of sense | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | can | no one | for cloth's office; suitable property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | present | cloth | 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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