Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 62
The Emperor shared in the general satisfaction; and presented the impostors with the riband of an order of knighthood, to be worn in their button-holes, and the title of “Gentlemen Weavers.”
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: share, present, wear, order, title · To what, where: general satisfaction, impostors, button holes, knighthood, Gentlemen Weavers
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 (Emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 satisfaction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 satisfaction | det |
| 6 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 satisfaction | amod |
| 7 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shared | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 presented | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 presented | cc |
| 10 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shared | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impostors | det |
| 12 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 presented | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 riband | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 riband | det |
| 15 | riband | riband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presented | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 order | det |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riband | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 knighthood | case |
| 20 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 order | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 worn | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 worn | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 worn | aux:pass |
| 24 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 presented | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 holes | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 holes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 holes | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 button | punct |
| 29 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 worn | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 title | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 title | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 title | det |
| 33 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shared | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Weavers | case |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Weavers | punct |
| 36 | Gentlemen | gentlemen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 Weavers | nummod |
| 37 | Weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 title | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 title | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 title | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | the Emperor | the general satisfaction | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | present | past | the impostors | with the riband of a order of knighthood | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent impostor=Recipient with riband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | to-infinitive · passive | impostors's button holes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» | |||||
| 4 | order | knighthood | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | title | Gentlemen Weavers | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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