Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 70

The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.”

Who acts: whole suit, one · What happens: be, fancy, have, dress · To what, where: nothing, all, suit, great virtue

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 (whole suit, one), 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	3 suit	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suit	amod
3	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 light	advmod
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 cobweb	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cobweb	det
9	cobweb	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fancy	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 fancy	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fancy	aux
13	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 light	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fancy	ccomp
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 has	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 nothing	nmod
19	on	on	ADV	_	15 has	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 dressed	advmod
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fancy	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dressed	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 light	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 virtue	punct
28	however	however	ADV	_	33 virtue	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 however	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 virtue	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 virtue	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 virtue	amod
33	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 cloth	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 cloth	det
36	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cloth	amod
37	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 virtue	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the whole suit			as a cobweb; light property	tree rules
2	fancy	might	one				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	present	one	nothing	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	dress	participle	one not said here		suit		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	the whole suit not said here	the great virtue		of this delicate cloth; however property	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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