Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 54

All his attendants, who were with him, looked and looked, and although they could not see anything more than the others, they said, like the emperor, "It is very beautiful."

Who acts: attendants, approval · What happens: be, look, not see, say · To what, where: anything · 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 (attendants, approval), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 attendants	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 attendants	nmod:poss
3	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 him	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 him	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 him	cop
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 attendants	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 him	punct
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 see	obj
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 see	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 others	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 others	det
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 more	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 emperor	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 emperor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 emperor	det
31	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 emperor	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 beautiful	punct
34	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beautiful	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 beautiful	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 beautiful	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing's attendants		with thing	tree rules
2	look	past	thing's attendants			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	look	past	thing's attendants not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not see	could	attendants = attendant	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	attendants = attendant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	approval		beautiful 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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