The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 58

And then he nodded pleasantly, and examined the empty loom, for he would not say that he could see nothing.

Who acts: Dear · What happens: nod, examine, not say, see · To what, where: empty loom, nothing · 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 (Dear), 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 nodded	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 nodded	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	4 nodded	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 examined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 examined	cc
8	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nodded	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loom	det
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 loom	amod
11	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 examined	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 examined	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 see	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 see	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	Dear		then	pleasantly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	examine	past	Dear not said here	the empty loom			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loom=Theme
3	not say speech: assert	would	Dear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	could	Dear	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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