The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 43
‘Yes, it is quite beautiful,’ he said to the Emperor.
Who acts: delight, piece · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (delight, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 beautiful | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Emperor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Emperor | det |
| 14 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | delight | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | piece | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to emperor=Recipient |
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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