Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 48
"What is this?" thought the emperor, "I do not see anything at all.
Who acts: this, I · What happens: be, think, not see · To what, where: this, emperor, anything, all · 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 (this, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 this | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | conj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 anything | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | this | the emperor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot emperor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | I | anything | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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