Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 8
If I were to be dressed in a suit made of this cloth I should be able to find out which men in my empire were unfit for their places, and I could distinguish the clever from the stupid.
Who acts: I, men · What happens: dress, make, be, find out, distinguish · To what, where: I, suit, clever · 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 (I, men), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 dressed | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dressed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dressed | aux:pass |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 distinguish | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 suit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 suit | det |
| 9 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obl |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 suit | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 cloth | det |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dressed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 find | compound:prt |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 unfit | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 empire | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 empire | nmod:poss |
| 25 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 unfit | cop |
| 27 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 find | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 places | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 places | nmod:poss |
| 30 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 unfit | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 distinguish | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 distinguish | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 distinguish | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 distinguish | aux |
| 35 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 clever | det |
| 37 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 distinguish | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 stupid | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stupid | det |
| 40 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 distinguish | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 distinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | a suit | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a suit not said here | of this cloth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | should | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find out | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | which men in my empire | for people's places; unfit property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | distinguish | could | I | the clever | from the stupid | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent clever=Theme from stupid=Co-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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