The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 1
Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them in order to be beautifully dressed.
Who acts: Emperor, he · What happens: live, be, spend, dress · To what, where: money, order
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, he), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fond | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fond | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fond | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fond | advmod |
| 11 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 fond | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 spent | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spent | nsubj |
| 17 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 money | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 money | nmod:poss |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spent | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 dressed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dressed | aux:pass |
| 27 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 28 dressed | advmod |
| 28 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 spent | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a Emperor | of new clothes; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | he | his money | order | on clothes | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on they=Goal | ||
| 4 | dress | to-infinitive · passive | he not said here | beautifully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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