Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 82
So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, “Oh!
Who acts: Emperor, people · What happens: walk, stand by, cry out · To what, where: people, high canopy, windows
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 (Emperor, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 walked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 canopy | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 canopy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 canopy | amod |
| 9 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 canopy | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 procession | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 procession | det |
| 15 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 streets | punct |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 streets | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 streets | det |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 capital | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 capital | nmod:poss |
| 22 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 streets | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 people | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 people | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 people | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walked | obl |
| 28 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 people | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 standing | fixed |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 those | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 those | cc |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 people | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 windows | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 windows | det |
| 35 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 those | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cried | punct |
| 37 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 windows | acl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 cried | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 those | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Oh | punct |
| 41 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 32 those | flat |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Emperor | all people | Emperor's high canopy in the midst of the procession | now | through the streets of Emperor's capital | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under canopy=Trajectory | |
| 2 | stand by | gerund | all people not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | participle | the windows not said here | 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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