The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 24
‘Dear, dear!’ thought he, ‘can I be stupid?
Who acts: Dear, I · What happens: think, be · To what, where: minister · 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 (Dear, 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 | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dear | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stupid | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 stupid | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stupid | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stupid | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stupid | cop |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Dear | minister | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | can | I | stupid property | tree rules |
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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