Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 31
“Oh, it is excellent!” replied the old minister, looking at the loom through his spectacles.
Who acts: empty, old minister · What happens: be, reply, look · 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 (empty, old 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 excellent | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 excellent | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 excellent | cop |
| 6 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 excellent | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 excellent | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 minister | amod |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 loom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loom | det |
| 17 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 spectacles | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | empty | excellent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | the old minister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the old minister not said here | through minister's spectacles; at the loom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=Theme |
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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