The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 15

Now he certainly believed that he had nothing to fear for himself, but he wanted first to send somebody else in order to see how he stood with regard to his office.

Who acts: cloth · What happens: believe, have, fear, want, send, see · To what, where: nothing, somebody · 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 (cloth), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 believed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 believed	advmod
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	ccomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fear	mark
10	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 fear	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	conj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 wanted	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 send	mark
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
20	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 send	obj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 somebody	advmod
22	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 see	mark
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 in	fixed
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 send	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 stood	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 regard	case
30	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 office	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 office	nmod:poss
33	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	cloth		now	certainly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	cloth	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	fear	to-infinitive	cloth not said here	nothing not said here		for cloth	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for himself=Attribute
4	want	past	cloth			first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	cloth not said here	somebody			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	cloth not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	stand	past	cloth			with regard; to cloth's office	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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