Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 2
He did not care for his soldiers, and the theatre did not amuse him; the only thing, in fact, he thought anything of was to drive out and show a new suit of clothes.
Who acts: ambition, theatre · What happens: not care, not amuse, think, be, show · To what, where: ambition, anything, new suit
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 (ambition, theatre), 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 | 4 care | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 soldiers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 care | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amuse | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 amuse | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 theatre | det |
| 11 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amuse | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 amuse | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 amuse | advmod |
| 14 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 care | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 amuse | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thing | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fact | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fact | case |
| 22 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fact | acl |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 thought | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 anything | fixed |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 drive | cop |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 drive | mark |
| 30 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 anything | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 drive | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 show | cc |
| 33 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 drive | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 suit | det |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 suit | amod |
| 36 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 show | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 clothes | case |
| 38 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 suit | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | ambition | for ambition's soldiers | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for soldier=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not amuse | past · do-support | the theatre | ambition | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | ambition | anything | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | ambition not said here | anything not said here | drive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | show | infinitive | ambition not said here | a new suit of clothes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suit=Recipient |
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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