The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 4
In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there.
Who acts: king, something, many strangers · What happens: live, be, go on, come · To what, where: great city
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 (king, something, many strangers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | ccomp |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 was | advmod |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 something | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 going | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strangers | amod |
| 19 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | king | the great city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | something | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go on | gerund | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | many strangers | there | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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