The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 55
That were the most dreadful thing that could happen to me.
Who acts: That, dreadful thing · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: dreadful thing, me
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 (That, dreadful thing), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 dreadful | advmod |
| 5 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 happen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the dreadful thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | could | the dreadful thing | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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