Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 58
People should see that they were busy to finish the emperor's new suit.
Who acts: People · What happens: see, be, finish · To what, where: new suit
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 busy | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 busy | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 busy | cop |
| 7 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 finish | mark |
| 9 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 busy | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 suit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 emperor | case |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 suit | amod |
| 14 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finish | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should | People | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | people | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | people not said here | the emperor's new suit | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suit=Eventuality |
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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