Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 12

They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.

Who acts: weavers, empty · What happens: ask, put, continue, pretend, loom, work · To what, where: both, own knapsacks, pretended work

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 (weavers, empty), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 silk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 silk	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 delicate	advmod
6	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silk	amod
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thread	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thread	det
10	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thread	amod
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thread	compound
12	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silk	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	conj
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 knapsacks	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knapsacks	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 knapsacks	amod
19	knapsacks	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 continued	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 continued	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 continued	advmod
23	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 work	nmod:poss
25	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 work	amod
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 continued	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 looms	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 empty	det
29	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looms	nsubj
30	looms	loom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 continued	conj
31	until	until	ADP	_	32 late	case
32	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 looms	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 night	case
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looms	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	weavers = weaver				for the delicate silk and the purest gold thread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	infinitive	weavers = weaver not said here	both	weavers's own knapsacks			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent both=Goal
3	continue	past		weavers's pretended work		then		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4	pretend	participle						tree rules
5	loom	present	the empty			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work		weavers = weaver					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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