Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 17
So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
Who acts: faithful old minister, knaves · What happens: go, work · To what, where: hall
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 (faithful old minister, knaves), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 minister | det |
| 3 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 minister | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 minister | amod |
| 5 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 working | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 working | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knaves | det |
| 13 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 working | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 working | aux |
| 15 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 might | det:predet |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 might | nmod:poss |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 working | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looms | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 looms | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 looms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 looms | amod |
| 24 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 working | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the faithful old minister | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | work | past · progressive | the knaves | at knaves's empty looms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=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: «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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