The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 34
The old minister paid great attention, so that he could tell the same to the Emperor when he came back to him, which he did.
Who acts: old minister, minister · What happens: pay, tell, come back, do · To what, where: great attention, same, Emperor, king · 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 (old minister, minister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attention | amod |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 tell | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 paid | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Emperor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Emperor | det |
| 17 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 did | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the old minister | great attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | could | minister | the same | the Emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent same=Topic to emperor=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come back | past | minister | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | do | past | minister | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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