Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 29
What a beautiful pattern, what brilliant colours!
Who acts: beautiful pattern · What happens: colour
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 (beautiful pattern), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 pattern | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pattern | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pattern | amod |
| 4 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 colours | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 colours | nsubj |
| 7 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 colours | amod |
| 8 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pattern | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pattern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | what beautiful pattern and brilliant colours | 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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