Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 63

"Indeed!" said all the courtiers; but they could not see anything, for there was nothing to be seen.

Who acts: courtiers, swindlers, nothing · What happens: say, not see, be, see · 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 (courtiers, swindlers, nothing), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 courtiers	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 courtiers	det
8	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	advcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 was	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 seen	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 nothing	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all courtiers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not see	could	swindlers = swindler	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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