Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 17
"I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers," thought the emperor. "
Who acts: emperor · What happens: send, think · To what, where: honest old minister, weavers · 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), 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 | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 weavers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weavers | det |
| 11 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 emperor | det |
| 16 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | shall | the emperor = emperor | my honest old minister | the weavers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to weaver=Destination | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the emperor | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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