Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 55
And all advised him to wear the new magnificent clothes at a great procession which was soon to take place. "
Who acts: thing · What happens: advise, wear, be · To what, where: thing, new magnificent clothes, great procession
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 advised | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 advised | advmod |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wear | mark |
| 6 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clothes | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 wear | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 procession | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 procession | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 procession | amod |
| 14 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 take | obj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | cop |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 take | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 procession | acl:relcl |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | thing | all property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wear not said to happen | to-infinitive | thing not said here | the new magnificent clothes | a great procession | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | thing not said here | soon, take 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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