Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 45
And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.
Who acts: Emperor, manufacture · What happens: wish, see, be · To what, where: costly manufacture, loom
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 (Emperor, manufacture), 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 | _ | 6 wished | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wished | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Emperor | nmod |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 manufacture | det |
| 10 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manufacture | amod |
| 11 | manufacture | manufacture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loom | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 loom | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loom | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loom | cop |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 loom | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 loom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loom | det |
| 19 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the Emperor Emperor | now | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor Emperor not said here | the costly manufacture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manufacture=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | manufacture | the loom | still | 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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