The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 47

‘Is it not splendid!’ said both the old statesmen who had already been there.

Who acts: statesman, old statesmen · What happens: not be, say, have, be · To what, where: old statesmen · 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 (statesman, old statesmen), 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	_	5 splendid	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 splendid	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 splendid	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 splendid	advmod
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 splendid	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 splendid	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 statesmen	cc:preconj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 statesmen	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 statesmen	amod
12	statesmen	statesman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 statesmen	acl:relcl
15	already	already	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 there	cop
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	statesman		splendid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the old statesmen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent statesman=Topic
3	have	past	the old statesmen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle			there property	tree rules

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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