Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 34
The old minister listened attentively to their words, in order that he might repeat them to the Emperor; and then the knaves asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was necessary to complete what they had begun.
Who acts: old minister, minister, knaves, impostors · What happens: listen, repeat, ask, say, be, complete · To what, where: order, impostors, Emperor · 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 (old minister, minister, knaves, impostors), 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 | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 4 listened | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 order | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 order | case |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 repeat | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 repeat | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 repeat | aux |
| 15 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 order | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 repeat | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Emperor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 repeat | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 asked | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knaves | det |
| 24 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 silk | case |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 silk | amod |
| 28 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gold | cc |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 silk | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saying | punct |
| 32 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 asked | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 necessary | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 necessary | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 necessary | cop |
| 36 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 saying | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 complete | mark |
| 38 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 necessary | csubj |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 begun | obj |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 begun | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 begun | aux |
| 42 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 complete | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the old minister | order | to impostors's words; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | |||
| 2 | repeat | might | minister | impostors = impostor | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to emperor=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the knaves | then | for more silk and gold | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the knaves not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | complete | to-infinitive | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | begin | past · perfect | impostors = impostor | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | word | impostors = impostor | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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