Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 44
The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense.
Who acts: whole city, Emperor · What happens: talk, order, weave · To what, where: Emperor, own expense
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 (whole city, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloth | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloth | amod |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ordered | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ordered | aux |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 woven | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 woven | aux:pass |
| 17 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ordered | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 expense | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 expense | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 expense | amod |
| 21 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woven | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | the whole city | of the splendid cloth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | order | past · perfect · passive | the Emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | weave not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the Emperor not said here | cloth's own expense | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: at expense=Trajectory |
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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