Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 74
“How splendid his Majesty looks in his new clothes, and how well they fit!” everyone cried out.
Who acts: clothes, everyone · What happens: look, fit, cry out · 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 (clothes, everyone), 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 looks | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 splendid | advmod |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 splendid | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 clothes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 looks | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fit | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fit | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fit | nsubj |
| 16 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | advcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 fit | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cried | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | in Emperor's new clothes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clothes=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fit in a quote | present | clothes | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | everyone | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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