The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 59
His whole Court round him looked and looked, and saw no more than the others; but they said like the Emperor, ‘Oh! it is beautiful!’
Who acts: whole Court, others, Court · What happens: look, see, say, be · To what, where: more · 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 (whole Court, others, Court), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Court | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Court | amod |
| 3 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Court | nmod |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 more | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 Emperor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emperor | det |
| 23 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 26 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 30 beautiful | discourse |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Oh | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | cop |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear not said here | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | others = other | like the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Court | beautiful 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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