Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 48
“If your Majesty will only be pleased to look at it!
Who acts: Majesty · What happens: be, look
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 (Majesty), 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 | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 pleased | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleased | cop |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleased | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | your Majesty | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | your Majesty not said here | at work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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