The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 72
‘Will it please your Majesty graciously to take off your clothes,’ said the impostors, ‘then we will put on the new clothes, here before the mirror.’
Who acts: cloak, we · What happens: please, take off, say, put · To what, where: Majesty, clothes, impostors, 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 (cloak, we), 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 | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 please | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obj |
| 7 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 4 please | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 please | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 impostors | det |
| 17 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 impostors | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 impostors | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 put | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 clothes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 clothes | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 clothes | amod |
| 27 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 here | punct |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 put | advmod |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 mirror | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mirror | det |
| 32 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | future | cloak | your Majesty | graciously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | take off | to-infinitive | cloak not said here | your clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the impostors | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put | future | we | the new clothes; here | before the mirror; then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
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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