The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 32
Yes, I will tell the Emperor that it pleases me very much.’
Who acts: I, office · What happens: tell, please · To what, where: Emperor, me · 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 (I, office), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 tell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pleases | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleases | nsubj |
| 10 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pleases | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 pleases | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the Emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | please | present | office | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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