Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 78
“The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting,” announced the chief master of the ceremonies.
Who acts: canopy, chief master · What happens: bear, wait, announce · To what, where: canopy, Majesty · 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 (canopy, chief master), 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 waiting | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 canopy | det |
| 3 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 borne | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 borne | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 borne | aux:pass |
| 8 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 canopy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Majesty | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 borne | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 procession | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 procession | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 procession | det |
| 15 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 borne | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 canopy | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 waiting | aux |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 announced | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 21 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 master | det |
| 23 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 master | amod |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 announced | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ceremonies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ceremonies | det |
| 27 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 master | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | present · passive | the canopy not said here | the canopy | your Majesty | in the procession | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | the canopy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | past | the chief master of the ceremonies | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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