The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 40
‘Stupid I am not!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be my good office for which I am not fitted.
Who acts: Stupid · What happens: think, be, not fit · To what, where: man, good office, I
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 (Stupid), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stupid | punct |
| 2 | Stupid | stupid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stupid | acl:relcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 am | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stupid | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stupid | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 office | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 office | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 office | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 office | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 office | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 office | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 office | nmod:poss |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 office | amod |
| 19 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fitted | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fitted | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fitted | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fitted | advmod |
| 25 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 office | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Stupid | the man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | stupid | my good office | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fit | present · passive | I | for my good office | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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