Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 65
The emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put the new suit upon him, one piece after another; and the emperor looked at himself in the glass from every side.
Who acts: emperor, swindlers · What happens: undress, pretend, put, look · To what, where: new suit, glass
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 (emperor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 undressed | nsubj |
| 3 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretended | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pretended | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swindlers | det |
| 7 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pretended | nsubj |
| 8 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 undressed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suit | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 suit | amod |
| 13 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 piece | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 piece | nummod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 another | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 emperor | det |
| 24 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 undressed | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 looked | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 glass | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 glass | det |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 side | det |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | the emperor | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the swindlers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | the swindlers not said here | the new suit | upon emperor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme upon he=Destination | |||
| 4 | look | past | the emperor | the glass | at emperor; from every side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=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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