Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 24
I should never have thought so, and nobody must know it!
Who acts: I, nobody · What happens: not think, know · To what, where: best
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 thought | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | aux |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | should · perfect | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | must | nobody | best = good | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=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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