Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 64
"Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress," said the swindlers, "that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?"
Who acts: suit, swindlers · What happens: please, say, assist, put, look · To what, where: Majesty, new suit · 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 (suit, swindlers), 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 | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 please | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 please | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 undress | case |
| 9 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 10 undress | advmod |
| 10 | undress | undress | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 now | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 swindlers | det |
| 15 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swindlers | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 swindlers | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 assist | nsubj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 assist | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 assist | aux |
| 21 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swindlers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 assist | obj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 putting | mark |
| 25 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 assist | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 suit | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 suit | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 suit | amod |
| 29 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 putting | obl |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 glass | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 glass | det |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 glass | amod |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 glass | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 looking | punct |
| 35 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 putting | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please in a quote | present · do-support | suit | your Majesty | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the swindlers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | assist in a quote | may | the swindlers | your Majesty | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | gerund | the swindlers not said here | the new suit | before the large looking glass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination | |||
| 5 | look in a quote | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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