The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 71

‘Yes,’ said all the knights, but they could see nothing, for there was nothing there.

Who acts: knights, nothing · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: knights, nothing · 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 (knights, nothing), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 knights	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knights	det
8	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 was	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 see	advcl
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 was	nsubj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 nothing	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		all knights		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
2	see	could	knights = knight	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/71/