The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 50
And then they pointed to the empty loom, for they believed that the others could see the cloth quite well.
Who acts: colours, others · What happens: point, believe, see · To what, where: empty loom, cloth · 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 (colours, others), 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 pointed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pointed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pointed | nsubj |
| 4 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 loom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loom | det |
| 7 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loom | amod |
| 8 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 believed | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 believed | nsubj |
| 12 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 believed | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | colours = colour | the empty loom | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to loom=Recipient | |||
| 2 | believe | past | colours = colour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | could | the others | the cloth | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloth=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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