Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 53

"Really," he said, turning to the weavers, "your cloth has our most gracious approval;" and nodding contentedly he looked at the empty loom, for he did not like to say that he saw nothing.

Who acts: thing, cloth, our · What happens: say, turn, have, nod, look, not like · To what, where: weavers, gracious approval, nothing · 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 (thing, cloth, our), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Really	really	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Really	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Really	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turning	punct
8	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 weavers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weavers	det
11	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turning	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cloth	nmod:poss
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turning	advcl
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 approval	nmod:poss
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 gracious	advmod
19	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 approval	amod
20	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
24	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 looked	csubj
25	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	24 nodding	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 loom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loom	det
30	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 loom	amod
31	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 like	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 like	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 like	advmod
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 looked	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 say	mark
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 like	xcomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 saw	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 say	ccomp
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 saw	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	turn	gerund	thing not said here		the weavers		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to weaver=Trajectory
3	have in a quote	present	your cloth	our gracious approval			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Patient
4	nod	gerund				contentedly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	thing			at the empty loom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=Theme
6	not like	past · do-support	thing				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	thing not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	see	past	thing	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
9	approve in a quote		our				nom approval «act 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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