The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 92

This struck the Emperor, for it seemed to him as if they were right; but he thought to himself, ‘I must go on with the procession now.

Who acts: This, it, people, Emperor, I · What happens: strike, seem, be, think, go on · To what, where: Emperor · 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 (This, it, people, Emperor), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 seemed	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 right	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 right	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 right	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 thought	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 procession	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 procession	det
30	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	This	the Emperor				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent emperor=Instrument
2	seem	past	it		Emperor			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	people				right property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Emperor		Emperor			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go on	must	I			now	with the procession	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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