The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 17
‘I will send my old and honoured minister to the weavers,’ thought the Emperor.
Who acts: I · What happens: send, think · To what, where: old minister, weavers, 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), 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 send | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minister | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 honoured | cc |
| 8 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 weavers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weavers | det |
| 12 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Emperor | det |
| 17 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | my old minister | the weavers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to weaver=Destination | |||
| 2 | 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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