Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 89
The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now!
Who acts: Emperor, people, procession · What happens: vex, know, be, think, go on · To what, where: Emperor · 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 (Emperor, people, procession), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vexed | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 right | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 right | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vexed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 procession | det |
| 19 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 go | advmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the Emperor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Emperor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the people | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Emperor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go on | must | the procession | now | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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