Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 33

“We shall be much obliged to you,” said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.

Who acts: impostors, pretended stuff · What happens: oblige, say, name, describe, pretend, pattern · To what, where: We, you, different colors, pattern · 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, pretended stuff), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 obliged	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 obliged	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 obliged	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 obliged	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 obliged	advmod
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 obliged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obliged	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 obliged	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 impostors	det
13	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 named	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 named	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 named	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 named	nsubj
18	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 colors	det
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 colors	amod
21	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 named	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 described	cc
23	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 named	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pattern	det
25	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 described	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 stuff	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stuff	det
28	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 stuff	amod
29	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pattern	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	oblige in a quote	shall · passive		We	you		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the impostors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	name	past	impostors = impostor	the different colors		then	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Theme
4	describe	past	impostors = impostor not said here	the pattern of the pretended stuff			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
5	pretend	participle					tree rules
6	pattern		the pretended stuff				nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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