Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 7
"That must be wonderful cloth," thought the emperor. "
Who acts: That, wonderful cloth · What happens: be, think · To what, where: wonderful cloth, emperor · 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 (That, wonderful cloth), 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 | _ | 6 cloth | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 cloth | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cloth | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cloth | cop |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cloth | amod |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cloth | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cloth | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 emperor | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | That | wonderful cloth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | wonderful cloth | the emperor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot emperor=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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