The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 88
None of the Emperor’s clothes had met with such approval as these had.
Who acts: None, these · What happens: meet, have
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 (None, these), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 met | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Emperor | case |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 None | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | aux |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 approval | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 approval | amod |
| 11 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | None | with such approval | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with approval=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | these | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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