Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 23
Oh dear," he thought, "can I be so stupid?
Who acts: minister, I · What happens: think, be
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 (minister, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 dear | discourse |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stupid | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stupid | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stupid | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stupid | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stupid | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 stupid | advmod |
| 13 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | minister | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | can | I | stupid property | tree rules |
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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