Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 74
Then he turned once more to the looking-glass, that people should think he admired his garments.
Who acts: emperor, people · What happens: turn, look, think, admire · To what, where: looking glass, garments · 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 (emperor, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 glass | det |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 glass | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 admired | nsubj |
| 17 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 garments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 admired | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | emperor | the looking glass | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to glass=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | should | people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | admire | past | emperor | emperor's garments | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garment=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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