Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 13
"I should very much like to know how they are getting on with the cloth," thought the emperor.
Who acts: emperor, swindlers · What happens: like, know, get on, think · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (emperor, swindlers), 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 | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | xcomp |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 getting | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 getting | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cloth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cloth | det |
| 16 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 emperor | det |
| 21 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | the emperor = emperor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the emperor = emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | swindlers = swindler | with the cloth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the emperor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «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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