The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 8

‘If I had them on I could find out which men in my kingdom are unfit for the offices they hold; I could distinguish the wise from the stupid!

Who acts: I, men, clothes · What happens: have, find out, be, hold, distinguish · To what, where: clothes, offices, wise · 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 (I, men, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 find	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 I	case
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 distinguish	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 find	compound:prt
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 unfit	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kingdom	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kingdom	nmod:poss
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 men	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unfit	cop
17	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 find	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 offices	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 offices	det
20	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 unfit	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hold	nsubj
22	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 offices	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 distinguish	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 distinguish	aux
26	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wise	det
28	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 distinguish	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 stupid	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stupid	det
31	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 distinguish	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 distinguish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	find out	could	I			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	which men in my kingdom		for the offices; unfit property	tree rules
4	hold	present	clothes	the offices not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme
5	distinguish	could	I	the wise	from the stupid	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent wise=Theme from stupid=Co-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.

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