Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 14
But he felt rather uneasy when he remembered that he who was not fit for his office could not see it.
Who acts: cloth, office · What happens: feel, remember, not be, not see · To what, where: sum · 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 (cloth, office), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 felt | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 uneasy | advmod |
| 5 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 remembered | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fit | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fit | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fit | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fit | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fit | advmod |
| 14 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remembered | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 office | nmod:poss |
| 17 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fit | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | cloth | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remember | past | cloth | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | cloth | fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | cloth's office | sum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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