The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 70
‘Spun clothes are so comfortable that one would imagine one had nothing on at all; but that is the beauty of it!’
Who acts: Spun clothes, one, that · What happens: spin, be, imagine, have on · To what, where: nothing, all, beauty
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 (Spun clothes, one, that), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 comfortable | punct |
| 2 | Spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clothes | amod |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 comfortable | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 comfortable | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 comfortable | advmod |
| 6 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 imagine | mark |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 imagine | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | aux |
| 10 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 comfortable | advcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | ccomp |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 had | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 had | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 beauty | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 beauty | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 beauty | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 beauty | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beauty | det |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comfortable | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 beauty | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 comfortable | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Spun clothes | comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imagine | would | one | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have on | past | one | nothing | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 5 | is a | present | that | the beauty | of beauty | 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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