Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 57

And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.

Who acts: thing, empty · What happens: smile, look, loom, say, not see, praise · 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 (thing, empty), 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	_	3 smiled	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smiled	nsubj
3	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 graciously	advmod
5	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	3 smiled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
9	closely	closely	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 looms	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 empty	det
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looms	nsubj
13	looms	loom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 account	case
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 account	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 account	det
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	obl
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smiled	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 see	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	ccomp
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 praised	obj
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 officers	nummod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 officers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 officers	det
31	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 praised	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 court	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 court	nmod:poss
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 officers	nmod
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 praised	aux
36	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 see	ccomp
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADV	_	36 praised	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smile	past	thing		graciously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	thing not said here		closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	loom	present	the empty			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	would	thing		for no account	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not see	could	thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	praise	past · perfect · passive		the two officers of thing's court		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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