Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 8

“Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!

Who acts: splendid clothes, men · What happens: have, find out, be, distinguish · To what, where: splendid clothes, wise · 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 (splendid clothes, men), 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	_	2 Had	punct
2	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Had	obj
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 suit	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 suit	det
6	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 find	advmod
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Had	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 find	compound:prt
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 unfit	advmod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 unfit	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 realms	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 realms	nmod:poss
18	realms	realm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 men	nmod
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 unfit	cop
20	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 office	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 office	nmod:poss
23	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 unfit	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 able	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 able	cc
26	also	also	ADV	_	28 able	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Had	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 distinguish	mark
30	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wise	det
32	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distinguish	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 foolish	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 foolish	det
35	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distinguish	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		splendid clothes = clothes		tree rules
2	find out in a quote	might	splendid clothes = clothes		once property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	men in my realms		for men's office; unfit property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	infinitive			able property	tree rules
5	distinguish in a quote	to-infinitive		the wise	from the foolish	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent wise=Theme from foolish=Co-Theme

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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