Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 16
Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were.
Who acts: Everybody, all · What happens: know, possess, be, see · To what, where: remarkable quality, stuff, bad
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 (Everybody, all), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everybody | nmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 9 quality | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quality | det |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quality | amod |
| 9 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stuff | det |
| 11 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quality | appos |
| 12 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stuff | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 anxious | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 anxious | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 anxious | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anxious | cop |
| 17 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 anxious | xcomp |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 bad | advmod |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 stupid | cc |
| 23 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bad | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bad | obj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anxious | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Everybody | what remarkable quality | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer quality=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | possess | participle | the stuff not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | all | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | all not said here | bad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=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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