The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 20
‘Dear me!’ thought the old minister, opening his eyes wide, ‘I can see nothing!’
Who acts: me, I · What happens: think, open, see · To what, where: old minister, eyes, nothing · 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 (me, 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 | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | amod |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minister | amod |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opening | punct |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thought | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opening | obj |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 11 opening | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | me | the old minister | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent minister=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | me not said here | minister's eyes | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | can | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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