Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 40
“It must be, that I am not fit for my good, profitable office!
Who acts: stupid · What happens: be, not 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 (stupid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:32): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fit | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fit | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fit | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fit | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fit | advmod |
| 10 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 be | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 office | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 office | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 office | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 15 | profitable | profitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 office | amod |
| 16 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fit | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | must | officer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | stupid | for my good profitable office; fit 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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