Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 55

That would be the worst thing that could happen--Oh! the cloth is charming,” said he, aloud.

Who acts: That, worst thing, thing · What happens: be, happen, charm, say · To what, where: worst thing, cloth · 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 (That, worst thing, thing), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 charming	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happen	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl:relcl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 Oh	punct
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 happen	discourse
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cloth	det
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	obl:unmarked
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 charming	aux
16	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 charming	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 charming	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 aloud	punct
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	That	the worst thing		tree rules
2	happen	could	the worst thing	the cloth		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	charm	present · progressive	the worst thing			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	thing		aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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