Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 36
The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.
Who acts: Emperor, men, cloth · What happens: send, see, get on, ascertain, be · To what, where: officer · 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, men, cloth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 officer | det |
| 6 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 officer | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 getting | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 getting | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 see | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 getting | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ascertain | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ascertain | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ascertain | mark |
| 21 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | conj |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 28 ready | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cloth | det |
| 24 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ready | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 ready | aux |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 ready | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ready | cop |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ascertain | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Emperor | another officer of Emperor's court | now | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on | past · progressive | the men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | ascertain | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | the cloth | ready, soon property | tree rules |
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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