Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 72
“If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit, in front of the looking glass.”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, we · What happens: be, take off, fit, look · To what, where: clothes, new suit
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 (Imperial Majesty, we), 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 | _ | 18 fit | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 pleased | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Majesty | amod |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleased | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleased | cop |
| 8 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fit | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleased | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fit | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fit | aux |
| 18 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 suit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 suit | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 suit | amod |
| 22 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fit | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 front | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fit | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 glass | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 glass | det |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 glass | amod |
| 29 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 front | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fit | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | your Imperial Majesty | graciously, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take off in a quote | to-infinitive | your Imperial Majesty not said here | your clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fit in a quote | future | we | the new suit | in front of the looking glass | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on suit=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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