Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 21

The impostors requested him very courteously to be so good as to come nearer their looms; and then asked him whether the design pleased him, and whether the colors were not very beautiful; at the same time pointing to the empty frames.

Who acts: impostors, colors, same time · What happens: request, be, come, ask, not be, point · To what, where: minister, looms, empty frames · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (impostors, colors, same time), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 impostors	det
2	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 requested	nsubj
3	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 requested	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 courteously	advmod
6	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	10 good	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 requested	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	csubj
14	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 come	advmod
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 looms	nmod:poss
16	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 asked	advmod
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 requested	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 pleased	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 design	det
24	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pleased	nsubj
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 asked	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pleased	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 beautiful	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beautiful	cc
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	35 beautiful	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 colors	det
31	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 beautiful	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 beautiful	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 beautiful	advmod
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 beautiful	advmod
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 asked	ccomp
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 time	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	40 time	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 time	det
39	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 time	amod
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obl
41	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 time	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 frames	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 frames	det
44	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 frames	amod
45	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pointing	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	request	past	the impostors		minister			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive					courteously, good property	tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive		impostors's looms			near property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loom=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the impostors not said here		minister	then; time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	not is	past	the colors				beautiful property	tree rules
6	point	gerund	the same time not said here		the empty frames			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to frame=Recipient

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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