Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 40
It is very strange, but I must not let any one know it;" and he praised the cloth, which he did not see, and expressed his joy at the beautiful colours and the fine pattern. "
Who acts: thread, I, one, man · What happens: be, not let, know, praise, not see, express · To what, where: one, thread, cloth, joy, beautiful colours
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 (thread, I, one, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strange | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 strange | advmod |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strange | parataxis |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 praised | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 praised | nsubj |
| 19 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strange | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 praised | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 see | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 expressed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 expressed | cc |
| 30 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 praised | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 joy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 expressed | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 colours | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 colours | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 colours | amod |
| 36 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 expressed | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pattern | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pattern | det |
| 39 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pattern | amod |
| 40 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 colours | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thread | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | must | I | any one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | infinitive | any one not said here | thread | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | praise in a quote | past | man | the cloth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | man | the cloth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | express in a quote | past | man not said here | man's joy | the beautiful colours and the fine pattern | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | |||
| 7 | joy in a quote | man | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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