Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 47
“Is not the work absolutely magnificent?” said the two officers of the crown, already mentioned.
Who acts: work, two officers · What happens: be, say, mention · To what, where: two officers · 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 (work, two officers), 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 | _ | 7 magnificent | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 magnificent | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 work | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 magnificent | nsubj |
| 6 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 7 magnificent | advmod |
| 7 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 magnificent | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 magnificent | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 officers | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 officers | nummod |
| 13 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crown | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 officers | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mentioned | punct |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 mentioned | advmod |
| 19 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 officers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the work | absolutely, magnificent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the two officers of the crown | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | the two officers of the crown not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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