Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 71

“Yes indeed!” said all the courtiers, although not one of them could see anything of this exquisite manufacture.

Who acts: courtiers, one · What happens: say, see · To what, where: anything · 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 (courtiers, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Yes	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 courtiers	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtiers	det
9	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 see	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 see	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 manufacture	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 manufacture	det
21	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 manufacture	amod
22	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anything	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all courtiers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	see	could	one of courtiers	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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