Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 1
Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed.
Who acts: Many many years, emperor, he, his · What happens: live, think, spend, obtain, dress, ambition · To what, where: emperor, much, money, order, clothes, only ambition
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many many years, emperor, he, his), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clothes | amod |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 much | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 spent | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spent | nsubj |
| 19 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 money | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 money | nmod:poss |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spent | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 obtain | mark |
| 26 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spent | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 obtain | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 dressed | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ambition | nmod:poss |
| 30 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ambition | amod |
| 31 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dressed | aux:pass |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 dressed | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 dressed | aux:pass |
| 35 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 37 dressed | advmod |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 dressed | advmod |
| 37 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lived | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Many many years | a emperor | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme emperor=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a emperor | much | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | he | his money | order | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | he not said here | clothes | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dress | past · passive | his only ambition | always, well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | ambition | his = he | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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