Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 11
So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
Who acts: two, weavers · What happens: pretend, set up, affect, work, do · To what, where: two looms, nothing, reality
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 (two, weavers), 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 pretended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pretended | nsubj |
| 4 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretended | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 looms | nummod |
| 9 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 affected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 affected | cc |
| 12 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pretended | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 affected | xcomp |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 busily | advmod |
| 16 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 14 work | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 reality | case |
| 20 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretended | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 did | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the two | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set up | present | weavers | two looms | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient loom=Result | ||||
| 3 | affect | participle | the two not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | the two not said here | busily property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | past | weavers = weaver | nothing | reality | at all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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