The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 42
And so he praised the cloth which he did not see, and expressed to them his delight at the beautiful colours and the splendid texture.
Who acts: piece · What happens: praise, not see, express, delight · To what, where: cloth, delight, impostors, beautiful colours
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 (piece), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 praised | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 praised | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 praised | nsubj |
| 4 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 praised | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 see | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 expressed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 expressed | cc |
| 14 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 praised | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 expressed | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 delight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expressed | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 colours | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 colours | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 colours | amod |
| 22 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 expressed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 texture | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 texture | det |
| 25 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 texture | amod |
| 26 | texture | texture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 colours | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | piece | the cloth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | piece | the cloth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | express | participle | piece not said here | piece's delight | impostors = impostor | the beautiful colours and the splendid texture | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent delight=Theme to they=Recipient | ||
| 4 | delight | piece | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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