Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 43
“Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,” said he to his sovereign when he returned, “the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, Majesty, weavers, cloth · What happens: say, return, prepare, be · To what, where: sovereign, cloth · 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 (Imperial Majesty, Majesty, weavers, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 Majesty | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 Majesty | discourse |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Majesty | amod |
| 7 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sovereign | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 returned | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 magnificent | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 magnificent | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 magnificent | nsubj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 preparing | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 weavers | det |
| 24 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 preparing | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 preparing | aux |
| 26 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 magnificent | cop |
| 28 | extraordinarily | extraordinarily | ADV | _ | 29 magnificent | advmod |
| 29 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 returned | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | your Imperial Majesty | Majesty's sovereign | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sovereign=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Majesty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | present · progressive | the weavers | the cloth | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the cloth | extraordinarily, magnificent 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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