Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 42
And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and patterns.
Who acts: stupid · What happens: praise, not see, declare, be · To what, where: stuff
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.
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 praised | cc |
| 2 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 praised | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 praised | nsubj |
| 4 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stuff | det |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 praised | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 declared | cc |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 praised | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 delighted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delighted | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 delighted | cop |
| 17 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declared | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 colors | case |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 colors | det |
| 20 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 delighted | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 patterns | cc |
| 22 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 colors | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | stupid | the stuff | accordingly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | could | stupid | the stuff not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | stupid not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | stupid | with both colors and patterns; delighted 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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