Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 3

He had a coat for every hour of the day; and as one would say of a king "He is in his cabinet," so one could say of him, "The emperor is in his dressing-room."

Who acts: ambition, one, emperor · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: coat, cabinet, dressing room · 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 (ambition, one, emperor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coat	det
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hour	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 say	mark
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 cabinet	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cabinet	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cabinet	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cabinet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cabinet	nmod:poss
25	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cabinet	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 say	advmod
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 room	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 room	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 emperor	det
37	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 room	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 room	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 room	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 room	nmod:poss
41	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 room	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 dressing	punct
43	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	ambition	a coat		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	would	one				of a king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	ambition		ambition's cabinet			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	could	one				of ambition	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the emperor		ambition's dressing room			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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