Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 50
What glorious colors!” and at the same time they pointed to the empty frames; for they imagined that everyone else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship.
Who acts: colors, everyone · What happens: point, imagine, see · To what, where: same time, empty frames, exquisite piece · 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 (colors, everyone), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colors | amod |
| 3 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 colors | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 colors | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 time | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colors | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pointed | nsubj |
| 12 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 frames | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 frames | det |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 frames | amod |
| 16 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pointed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 imagined | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 imagined | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 imagined | nsubj |
| 20 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 everyone | advmod |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 imagined | ccomp |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 piece | det |
| 27 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 piece | amod |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 workmanship | case |
| 30 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 piece | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point in a quote | past | colors = color | the same time not said here | the empty frames | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Theme to frame=Recipient | |||
| 2 | imagine in a quote | past | colors = color | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | could | everyone | this exquisite piece of workmanship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |
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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