The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 44
Everybody in the town was talking of the magnificent cloth.
Who acts: Everybody · What happens: talk
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 (Everybody), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 talking | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everybody | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 talking | aux |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cloth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloth | det |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cloth | amod |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talking | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | Everybody | of the magnificent cloth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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