Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 25
I have never thought so myself; and no one must know it now if I am so.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: not think, know · To what, where: myself, design
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 myself | advmod |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 know | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 am | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 am | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 am | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · perfect | I | myself | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | must | no one | design | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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