Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 6

They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.

Who acts: rogues, beautiful colors, wonderful property, Emperor · What happens: give out, know, weave, manufacture, have, remain · To what, where: stuffs, clothes, wonderful property, office, character

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 (rogues, beautiful colors, wonderful property, Emperor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 knew	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	advcl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 weave	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 weave	mark
9	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knew	xcomp
10	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 colors	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 colors	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 colors	amod
15	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stuffs	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 patterns	cc
17	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 patterns	amod
18	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 colors	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clothes	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clothes	det
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 colors	conj
22	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 clothes	acl
23	from	from	ADP	_	22 manufactured	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 have	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 colors	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 property	det
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 property	amod
29	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 remaining	mark
31	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 property	acl
32	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 remaining	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 everyone	case
34	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 invisible	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 unfit	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 unfit	cop
37	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 everyone	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 office	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 office	det
40	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 unfit	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 held	nsubj
42	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 office	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 simple	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 simple	cc
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 simple	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 simple	cop
47	extraordinarily	extraordinarily	ADV	_	48 simple	advmod
48	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 unfit	conj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 character	case
50	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 simple	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give out	past	rogues = rogue				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	know	past	rogues = rogue				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	weave	to-infinitive	rogues = rogue not said here	stuffs of the beautiful colors and elaborate patterns and the clothes			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Product
4	manufacture	participle		the clothes not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	should	the beautiful colors and elaborate patterns and the clothes	the wonderful property			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient
6	remain	gerund	the wonderful property not said here			invisible property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past				for the office; unfit property	tree rules
8	hold	past	Emperor	the office not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme
9	is	past			character	extraordinarily, simple property	tree rules

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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