The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 79
‘They are waiting outside with the canopy which your Majesty is wont to have borne over you in the procession,’ announced the Master of the Ceremonies.
Who acts: colours, canopy · What happens: wait, be, bear, announce · To what, where: procession, Master · 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 (colours, canopy), 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 waiting | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 announced | ccomp |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 waiting | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 canopy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canopy | det |
| 8 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wont | nsubj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wont | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wont | cop |
| 13 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 canopy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 borne | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 borne | aux |
| 16 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 wont | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 borne | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 procession | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 procession | det |
| 21 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 borne | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 24 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Master | det |
| 26 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 announced | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Ceremonies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Ceremonies | det |
| 29 | Ceremonies | Ceremony | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 Master | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | colours = colour | with the canopy; outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the canopy | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive · perfect | the canopy not said here | the procession | over you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | the Master of the Ceremonies | 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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