Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 31
"We are pleased to hear that," said the two weavers, and described to him the colours and explained the curious pattern.
Who acts: We, two weavers, curious pattern · What happens: be, hear, say, describe, explain · To what, where: that, colours, 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 (We, two weavers, curious 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleased | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weavers | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 weavers | nummod |
| 13 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 described | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 described | cc |
| 16 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 described | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colours | det |
| 20 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 described | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 explained | cc |
| 22 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 described | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pattern | det |
| 24 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pattern | amod |
| 25 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 explained | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | We | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the two weavers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | describe | past | the colours | cloth | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent colour=Theme to he=be' | ||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | past | the curious pattern | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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