Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 71
The master of the ceremonies announced that the bearers of the canopy, which was to be carried in the procession, were ready.
Who acts: master, bearers · What happens: announce, carry, be · To what, where: bearers, procession · 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 (master, bearers), 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 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ceremonies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ceremonies | det |
| 5 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 master | nmod |
| 6 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 ready | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bearers | det |
| 9 | bearers | bearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 canopy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canopy | det |
| 12 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bearers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carried | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bearers | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 procession | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 procession | det |
| 21 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bearers | punct |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 announced | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the master of the ceremonies | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | the bearers of the canopy not said here | the bearers of the canopy | the procession | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in procession=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the bearers of the canopy | ready 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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