Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 20

Heaven preserve us!" he thought, and opened his eyes wide, "I cannot see anything at all," but he did not say so.

Who acts: Heaven, I · What happens: preserve, think, open, not see, not say · To what, where: us, eyes, anything, all · 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 (Heaven, I), 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 preserve	nsubj
2	preserve	preserve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 preserve	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 preserve	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 opened	cc
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 opened	obj
13	wide	wide	ADV	_	12 eyes	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 opened	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 see	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 anything	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 say	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 say	advmod
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	conj
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 say	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	preserve	infinitive	Heaven	us		tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	Heaven			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	open in a quote	past		Heaven's eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	not see	can	I	anything	all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	not say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	Heaven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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