The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 85
So the Emperor went along in the procession under the splendid canopy, and all the people in the streets and at the windows said, ‘How matchless are the Emperor’s new clothes!
Who acts: Emperor, people, new clothes · What happens: go along, say, be · To what, where: procession · 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 (Emperor, people, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 procession | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 procession | det |
| 8 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 canopy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canopy | det |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 canopy | amod |
| 12 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 streets | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 streets | det |
| 20 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 windows | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 windows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 windows | det |
| 24 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 streets | conj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 matchless | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 matchless | punct |
| 28 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 matchless | advmod |
| 29 | matchless | matchless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 matchless | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Emperor | det |
| 32 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Emperor | case |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clothes | amod |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 matchless | nsubj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | the Emperor | the procession | under the splendid canopy; along property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in procession=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all people in the streets and the windows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Emperor's new clothes | matchless property | 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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