Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 80
“Do my new clothes fit well?” asked he, turning himself round again before the looking glass, in order that he might appear to be examining his handsome suit.
Who acts: new clothes, Emperor · What happens: do, fit, ask, turn, look, appear · To what, where: Emperor, order, handsome suit · 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 (new clothes, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clothes | amod |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | ccomp |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 fit | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 turning | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 glass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 glass | det |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 glass | amod |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turning | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 order | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turning | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 appear | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 appear | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 appear | aux |
| 27 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 order | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 examining | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 examining | aux |
| 30 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 appear | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 suit | nmod:poss |
| 32 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 suit | amod |
| 33 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 examining | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fit in a quote | present | my new clothes | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Emperor | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | Emperor | order | before the looking glass; again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before glass=Source in order=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | appear | might | Emperor | order not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | ||||
| 7 | examine | to-infinitive · progressive | Emperor not said here | Emperor's handsome suit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=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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