Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 56
It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent," one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers "Imperial Court weavers."
Who acts: procession, one, clothes, everybody, emperor · What happens: be, hear, say, seem, appoint · To what, where: clothes, two swindlers · 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 (procession, one, clothes, everybody), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 magnificent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 magnificent | cop |
| 3 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magnificent | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 excellent | punct |
| 7 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magnificent | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magnificent | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 15 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magnificent | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 delighted | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 delighted | cop |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appointed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appointed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 emperor | det |
| 23 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | nsubj |
| 24 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seemed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 swindlers | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 swindlers | nummod |
| 27 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 appointed | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 weavers | punct |
| 29 | Imperial | Imperial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Court | compound |
| 30 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 weavers | compound |
| 31 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swindlers | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 magnificent | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 magnificent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | procession | magnificent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | procession not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | procession not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | past | one | clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | clothes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | seem in a quote | past | everybody | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | everybody not said here | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | appoint in a quote | past | the emperor | the two swindlers and Court weavers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swindler=Theme |
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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