Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 45
"Is it not magnificent?" said the two old statesmen who had been there before. "
Who acts: thread, two old statesmen · What happens: not be, say, be · 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 (thread, two old statesmen), 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 | _ | 5 magnificent | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 magnificent | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 magnificent | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 magnificent | advmod |
| 5 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 magnificent | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 magnificent | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 statesmen | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 statesmen | nummod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 statesmen | amod |
| 12 | statesmen | statesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 there | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 statesmen | acl:relcl |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | thread | magnificent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the two old statesmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the two old statesmen | before, there property | 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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