Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 29
“Well, Sir Minister!” said one of the knaves, still pretending to work.
Who acts: Sir Minister · What happens: say, pretend, work · To what, where: one · 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 (Sir Minister), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Minister | compound |
| 5 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Minister | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Minister | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 knaves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knaves | det |
| 12 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretending | punct |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 pretending | advmod |
| 15 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 work | mark |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pretending | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir Minister | one of the knaves | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | Sir Minister not said here | still | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | Sir Minister not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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