Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 22
The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
Who acts: poor old minister, minister, nothing · What happens: look, not discover, be · To what, where: anything, looms
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 (poor old minister, minister, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 minister | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 4 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 discover | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 discover | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 discover | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 discover | advmod |
| 12 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | conj |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 discover | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 looms | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 looms | det |
| 16 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 anything | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reason | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 reason | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 reason | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reason | amod |
| 22 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discover | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 viz | punct |
| 24 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reason | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 was | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reason | parataxis |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 was | nsubj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 nothing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the poor old minister | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the poor old minister not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not discover | could | minister | anything | the looms | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | 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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