Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 3
He had a different suit for each hour of the day; and as of any other king or emperor, one is accustomed to say, “he is sitting in council,” it was always said of him, “The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe.”
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: have, accustom, say, sit · To what, where: different suit, one, council, suit, wardrobe · 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 (Emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 suit | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 suit | amod |
| 5 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suit | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hour | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 king | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 king | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 king | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 king | amod |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 emperor | cc |
| 20 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 accustomed | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 24 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 king | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 accustomed | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sitting | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sitting | aux |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 say | ccomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 council | case |
| 33 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 say | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 said | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | aux:pass |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 39 said | advmod |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 say | ccomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 said | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sitting | punct |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 sitting | punct |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Emperor | det |
| 45 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 sitting | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 sitting | aux |
| 47 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 said | advcl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 wardrobe | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sitting | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Emperor | a different suit | for each hour of the day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accustom | present · passive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | Emperor | council | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · passive | suit | of Emperor; always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | the Emperor | Emperor's wardrobe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wardrobe=Location |
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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