The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 60
And they advised him to wear these new and magnificent clothes for the first time at the great procession which was soon to take place.
Who acts: others, Dear · What happens: advise, wear, be · To what, where: Dear, new clothes
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 (others, 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 | _ | 3 advised | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wear | mark |
| 6 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 clothes | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 magnificent | cc |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 new | conj |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 wear | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 procession | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 procession | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 procession | amod |
| 19 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 take | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | cop |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 take | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 procession | acl:relcl |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | others = other | Dear | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dear not said here | this new clothes | time | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | Dear not said here | soon, take 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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