Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 63

The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit.

Who acts: rogues, procession, sixteen lights, everyone · What happens: sit up, be, have, burn, see, finish · To what, where: sixteen lights, anxious, new suit

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, procession, sixteen lights, everyone), 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 rogues	det
2	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whole	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whole	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 take	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 procession	det
16	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 take	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 day	acl:relcl
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
24	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 lights	nummod
25	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 lights	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 see	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 see	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	conj
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 anxious	advmod
34	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 see	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 anxious	nsubj
36	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 anxious	acl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 finish	mark
38	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 were	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Emperor	det
40	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 suit	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 Emperor	case
42	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 suit	amod
43	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 finish	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	the rogues		day	whole property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the procession		on the day	take property	tree rules
3	have	past		sixteen lights			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
4	burn	gerund	sixteen lights not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	might	everyone	anxious			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anxious=Stimulus
6	be	past					tree rules
7	finish	to-infinitive		the Emperor's new suit			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suit=Eventuality

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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