The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 63
Most beautiful!’ went from mouth to mouth; everyone seemed delighted over them, and the Emperor gave to the impostors the title of Court weavers to the Emperor.
Who acts: Most, everyone, Emperor · What happens: go, seem, give, title · To what, where: mouth, title, impostors, Court weavers
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 (Most, everyone, Emperor), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Most | xcomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Most | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Most | punct |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 13 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 delighted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seemed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 impostors | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 impostors | det |
| 23 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 title | det |
| 25 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 weavers | case |
| 27 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 weavers | compound |
| 28 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 title | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Emperor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Emperor | det |
| 31 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Most | mouth | to mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location to mouth=Destination | |||
| 2 | seem | past | everyone | delighted property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the Emperor | the title of Court weavers | the impostors | to the Emperor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent title=Theme to impostor=Recipient | ||
| 4 | title | Court weavers | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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