Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 28
"Oh, it is very pretty, exceedingly beautiful," replied the old minister looking through his glasses. "
Who acts: empty, old minister · What happens: be, reply, look · 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 (empty, old minister), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 pretty | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pretty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pretty | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 minister | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 minister | amod |
| 16 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 glasses | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | empty | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | empty not said here | exceedingly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old minister | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the old minister not said here | through cloth's glasses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=Theme |
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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