The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 16
Everybody in the whole town knew what a wonderful power the cloth had, and they were all curious to see how bad or how stupid their neighbour was.
Who acts: Everybody, cloth, looms · What happens: know, have, be, see · To what, where: wonderful power
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 (Everybody, cloth, 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everybody | nmod |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 power | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 power | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 power | amod |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloth | det |
| 12 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 power | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 curious | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 curious | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 curious | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 curious | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 curious | advmod |
| 19 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knew | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 curious | advcl |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 bad | advmod |
| 23 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 see | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 stupid | cc |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 stupid | advmod |
| 26 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bad | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 28 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stupid | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 curious | cop |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Everybody | what wonderful power | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the cloth | what wonderful power not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | looms = loom | all, curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | looms = loom not said here | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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