Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 37
It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister; he surveyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames.
Who acts: officer, Emperor · What happens: be, survey, see · To what, where: looms, sides, nothing, all
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 (officer, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gentleman | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 gentleman | det |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 same | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 minister | case |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 minister | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gentleman | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 surveyed | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 surveyed | nsubj |
| 15 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 looms | det |
| 17 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surveyed | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sides | det |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looms | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 surveyed | conj |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 nothing | nmod |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 frames | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 frames | det |
| 30 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 frames | amod |
| 31 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nothing | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | officer | with this gentleman as the minister; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | survey | past | Emperor | the looms | all sides | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loom=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | could | Emperor not said here | nothing | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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