Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 79
Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid.
Who acts: Nobody, others, emperor · What happens: wish, let, know, see, be · To what, where: others, nothing · 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 (Nobody, others, emperor), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 let | mark |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | ccomp |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unfit | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 then | case |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 unfit | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 unfit | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 unfit | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 unfit | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 unfit | cop |
| 17 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 office | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 office | nmod:poss |
| 20 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unfit | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 stupid | cc |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 stupid | advmod |
| 23 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unfit | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Nobody | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | infinitive | others not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | emperor | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | would · perfect | emperor | for emperor's office; unfit property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | emperor not said here | 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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