Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 30
“You do not say whether the stuff pleases you.”
Who acts: You, stuff · What happens: not say, please · To what, where: you · 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 (You, stuff), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 pleases | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stuff | det |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleases | nsubj |
| 9 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 pleases | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | please in a quote | present | the stuff | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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