Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 73
The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass.
Who acts: rogues, Emperor · What happens: undress, pretend, array, turn round, look · To what, where: Emperor, new suit, side
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 (rogues, 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 | 5 undressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 undressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 undressed | advmod |
| 5 | undressed | undress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretended | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pretended | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rogues | det |
| 9 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pretended | nsubj |
| 10 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 undressed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 array | mark |
| 12 | array | array | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pretended | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 array | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 suit | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 suit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 suit | amod |
| 17 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 array | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 turning | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 20 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | nsubj |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 undressed | advcl |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 turning | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 side | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 glass | punct |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 glass | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 glass | det |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 glass | amod |
| 32 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past · passive | the Emperor | accordingly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the rogues | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | array | to-infinitive | the rogues not said here | Emperor | Emperor's new suit | tree rules | |||
| 4 | turn round | gerund | the Emperor | side to side | before the looking glass | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Source before glass=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | look | 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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