Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 28
I will never confess that I could not see the stuff.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not confess, not see · To what, where: stuff
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), 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 confess | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confess | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 confess | advmod |
| 4 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 confess | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stuff | det |
| 11 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confess | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confess | future | I | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not see | could | I | the stuff | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stuff=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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