Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 7
“These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!” thought the Emperor.
Who acts: splendid clothes · What happens: be, think · To what, where: splendid clothes, Emperor · 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 (splendid clothes), 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 | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 must | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 clothes | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 must | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 must | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 must | punct |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clothes | cop |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 clothes | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 clothes | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Emperor | det |
| 14 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | splendid clothes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | splendid clothes | the Emperor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot emperor=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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