The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 3
He had a coat for every hour of the day; and just as they say of a king, ‘He is in the council-chamber,’ they always said here, ‘The Emperor is in the wardrobe.’
Who acts: He, clothes, king, Emperor · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: coat, council chamber, wardrobe · 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 (He, clothes, king, Emperor), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hour | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 chamber | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 chamber | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 chamber | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 chamber | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 chamber | punct |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chamber | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 chamber | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 chamber | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chamber | det |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chamber | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 council | punct |
| 28 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ’ | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 chamber | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 said | advmod |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 chamber | parataxis |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 said | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wardrobe | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 wardrobe | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Emperor | det |
| 38 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 wardrobe | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 wardrobe | cop |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 wardrobe | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wardrobe | det |
| 42 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chamber | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 wardrobe | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 wardrobe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | He | a coat | for every hour of the day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | clothes | of a king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | king | the council chamber | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | clothes | here | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is | present | the Emperor | the wardrobe | 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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