The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 38
It was the same with him as the first one; he looked and looked, but because there was nothing on the empty loom he could see nothing.
Who acts: weaving, cloth · What happens: be, look
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 (weaving, cloth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 was | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | cop |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 was | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 loom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 loom | det |
| 24 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 loom | amod |
| 25 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 looked | conj |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | weaving | with cloth; as the first one; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | cloth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | past | cloth not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | could · past | cloth | see 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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