Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 18
“What can be the meaning of this?” thought the old man, opening his eyes very wide.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, open, mean · To what, where: eyes, this
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 (old man), 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 | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 be | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 meaning | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opening | punct |
| 16 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 opening | obj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 wide | advmod |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 16 opening | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | the old man | think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | the old man not said here | meaning's eyes | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean in a quote | this | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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