Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 22
The poor old minister tried his very best, but he could see nothing, for there was nothing to be seen. "
Who acts: poor old minister, minister, nothing · What happens: try, see, be · To what, where: best, nothing
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 (poor old minister, minister, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 minister | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 4 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 best | advmod |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 tried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 was | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | advcl |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 nothing | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the poor old minister | minister's best | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | could | minister | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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