Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 32
“This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.”
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, think · To what, where: Emperor, patterns · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 pattern | det |
| 3 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 colors | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 colors | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 colors | det |
| 7 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pattern | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pattern | punct |
| 9 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 tell | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yes | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Emperor | det |
| 15 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 delay | case |
| 17 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 delay | acl:relcl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | ccomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 think | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | I | the Emperor | without delay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | patterns = pattern | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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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