The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 18
‘He can judge best what the cloth is like, for he has intellect, and no one understands his office better than he.’
Who acts: cloth, one · What happens: judge, have, understand · To what, where: intellect, office
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, one), 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 judge | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 judge | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 judge | aux |
| 4 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 what | amod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 judge | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cloth | det |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | cop |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 what | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 has | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 judge | parataxis |
| 15 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 understands | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 understands | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understands | nsubj |
| 20 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 judge | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 office | nmod:poss |
| 22 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understands | obj |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 understands | xcomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 he | case |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 better | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 judge | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | can | cloth | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent what=Value | |||||
| 2 | have | present | cloth | intellect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intellect=Patient | ||||
| 3 | understand | present | no one | cloth's office | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer office=Stimulus |
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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