The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 37
The Emperor soon sent another worthy statesman to see how the weaving was getting on, and whether the cloth would soon be finished.
Who acts: Emperor, weaving · What happens: send, see, get on, finish · To what, where: worthy statesman, cloth · 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 (Emperor, weaving), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 statesman | det |
| 6 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 statesman | amod |
| 7 | statesman | statesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 getting | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weaving | det |
| 12 | weaving | weaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 getting | aux |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 see | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 getting | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 finished | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 finished | cc |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 finished | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cloth | det |
| 20 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 finished | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 finished | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 finished | aux:pass |
| 24 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Emperor | another worthy statesman | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statesman=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on | past · progressive | the weaving | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | finish | would · passive | the cloth | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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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