The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 86
That train fastened to his dress, how beautifully it hangs!’
Who acts: train · What happens: fasten, hang
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 (train), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 train | det |
| 2 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hangs | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 beautifully | advmod |
| 9 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 11 hangs | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hangs | nsubj |
| 11 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | parataxis |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 hangs | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | that train | to Emperor's dress | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to dress=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | train | beautifully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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