The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 41
It is strange, certainly, but no one must be allowed to notice it.’
Who acts: weaving, one · What happens: be, allow, notice · To what, where: one, weaving
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, one), 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 | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 certainly | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 strange | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 allowed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 allowed | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 allowed | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 strange | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 notice | mark |
| 14 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 notice | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | weaving | certainly, strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | must · passive | no one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | notice not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | weaving | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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