The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 2

He did not care about his soldiers, he did not care about the theatre; he only liked to go out walking to show off his new clothes.

Who acts: He · What happens: not care, like, go out, walk, show off · To what, where: new clothes

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 (He), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soldiers	nmod:poss
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 care	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 theatre	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 theatre	det
15	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 care	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 liked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 liked	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 liked	advmod
19	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 care	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 liked	xcomp
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 go	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 show	mark
25	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 walking	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 show	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 clothes	nmod:poss
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 clothes	amod
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 show	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	He		about his soldiers	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about soldier=Stimulus
2	not care	past · do-support	he		about the theatre	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about theatre=Stimulus
3	like	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		out property	tree rules
5	walk	gerund	he not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	show off	to-infinitive	he not said here	his new clothes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent clothes=Recipient

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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