Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 26
No, no, I cannot say that I was unable to see the cloth."
Who acts: I · What happens: not say, be, see · To what, where: cloth · 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 (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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 say | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 no | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 say | advmod |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 unable | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 unable | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unable | cop |
| 12 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unable | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cloth | det |
| 16 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | the cloth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloth=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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