Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 10
And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
Who acts: Emperor, sums · What happens: cause, give, begin, sum, work · To what, where: large sums, order, work, money
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, sums), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 caused | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sums | amod |
| 5 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sums | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 given | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 money | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 given | obl |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 weavers | cc:preconj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weavers | det |
| 14 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sums | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 begin | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begin | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 begin | aux |
| 20 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begin | obj |
| 23 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 20 begin | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Emperor | large sums of money both the weavers | order | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sum=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive · passive | Emperor not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | begin | might | sums = sum | sums's work | directly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | work | sums = sum | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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