The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 65
The people could see that they were very busy making the Emperor’s new clothes ready.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, be, make · To what, where: new clothes · 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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 busy | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 busy | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 busy | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 busy | advmod |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 busy | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 making | obj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 making | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | people | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | people not said here | the Emperor's new clothes | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |
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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