Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 6
Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid.
Who acts: colours, clothes, man · What happens: say, not be, make, possess, be · To what, where: clothes, wonderful quality · 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 (colours, clothes, man), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 colours | nmod:poss |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 patterns | cc |
| 4 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 colours | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beautiful | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | exceptionally | exceptionally | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 possessed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 possessed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clothes | det |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 possessed | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 clothes | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 material | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 material | nmod:poss |
| 21 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 quality | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quality | amod |
| 25 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 possessed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 invisible | case |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 invisible | cop |
| 28 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quality | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 invisible | obl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 unfit | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 unfit | cop |
| 34 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 office | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 office | nmod:poss |
| 37 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unfit | obl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 stupid | cc |
| 39 | unpardonably | unpardonably | ADV | _ | 40 stupid | advmod |
| 40 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 unfit | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | people's colours and patterns | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | beautiful, exceptionally property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | the clothes not said here | of people's material | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | possess | past | the clothes | the wonderful quality | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | to any man; invisible property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | any man | for man's office; unfit property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | any man not said here | unpardonably 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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