The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 73
The Emperor took off all his clothes, and the impostors placed themselves before him as if they were putting on each part of his new clothes which was ready, and the Emperor turned and bent himself in front of the mirror.
Who acts: Emperor, impostors, new clothes · What happens: take off, place, put, be, turn, bend · To what, where: clothes, part, Emperor, front
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 (Emperor, impostors, new clothes), 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clothes | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 impostors | det |
| 11 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | nsubj |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 placed | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 putting | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 putting | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 putting | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 putting | aux |
| 20 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 placed | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 part | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 part | det |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 clothes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 clothes | amod |
| 27 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 part | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ready | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ready | cop |
| 30 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 turned | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 turned | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Emperor | det |
| 34 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 turned | nsubj |
| 35 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bent | cc |
| 37 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 turned | conj |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 bent | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 front | case |
| 40 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bent | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mirror | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mirror | det |
| 43 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 front | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | the Emperor | Emperor's clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | the impostors | clothes | before Emperor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past · progressive | impostors = impostor | each part of Emperor's new clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on part=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Emperor's new clothes | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | the Emperor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bend | past | the Emperor not said here | Emperor | front of the mirror | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in front=Location |
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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