Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 5
One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance.
Who acts: two rogues, One day · What happens: call, make · To what, where: rogues, appearance · 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 (two rogues, One day), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rogues | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 rogues | nummod |
| 5 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 day | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 rogues | acl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 calling | obj |
| 9 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 calling | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | two rogues not said here | rogues = rogue | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme weaver=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | One day | weavers's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |
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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