Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 38
“Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?” asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there.
Who acts: stuff, officer, impostors, same time, design · What happens: appear, do, ask, make, talk, not be · To what, where: same gestures · 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 (stuff, officer, impostors, same time), 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 | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stuff | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stuff | det |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 beautiful | case |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appear | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 beautiful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lord | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lord | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 minister | det |
| 19 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lord | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 impostors | det |
| 24 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ambassador | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Emperor | det |
| 27 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ambassador | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Emperor | case |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 ambassador | amod |
| 30 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 impostors | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 time | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obl |
| 36 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 time | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 gestures | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 gestures | amod |
| 39 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 making | obj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 before | case |
| 41 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 making | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 talking | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 talking | cc |
| 44 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 asked | advcl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 design | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 design | det |
| 47 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 talking | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 colors | cc |
| 49 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 design | conj |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 there | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 there | cop |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 there | advmod |
| 53 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 design | acl:relcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear in a quote | present · do-support | the stuff | as beautiful | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | officer | to my lord the minister | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the same time not said here | the same gestures | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product | ||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador not said here | of the design and colors | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | the design and colors | there 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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