The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 13
‘I should like very much to know how far they have got on with the cloth,’ thought the Emperor.
Who acts: I, looms · What happens: like, know, get on, think · To what, where: Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, looms), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 like | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 got | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 know | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 got | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cloth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cloth | det |
| 17 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Emperor | det |
| 22 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on | present · perfect | looms = loom | with the cloth; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the Emperor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent emperor=Attribute clause=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: «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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