Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 18
He can judge best how the stuff looks, for he is intelligent, and nobody understands his office better than he."
Who acts: emperor, stuff, nobody · What happens: judge, look, be, understand · To what, where: best, office
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, stuff, nobody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 judge | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | aux |
| 3 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 judge | obj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 looks | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stuff | det |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 intelligent | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 intelligent | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 intelligent | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 intelligent | cop |
| 13 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understands | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 understands | cc |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 understands | nsubj |
| 17 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 office | nmod:poss |
| 19 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understands | obj |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 understands | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 he | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 better | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 judge | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | can | emperor | best | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent good=Value | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the stuff | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | emperor | intelligent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | understand | present | nobody | emperor's office | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer office=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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