Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 30
I shall tell the emperor that I like the cloth very much."
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, like · To what, where: emperor · 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 like | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloth | det |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 like | obj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 like | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | shall | I | the emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | the emperor | 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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