Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 64
They pretended to roll the cloth off the looms; cut the air with their scissors; and sewed with needles without any thread in them.
Who acts: rogues · What happens: pretend, roll, cut, sew · To what, where: cloth, looms, air
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), 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 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 roll | mark |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roll | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 looms | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 looms | det |
| 9 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roll | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 cut | punct |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 scissors | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sewed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sewed | cc |
| 19 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 needles | case |
| 21 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sewed | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 thread | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 thread | det |
| 24 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sewed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sewed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | rogues = rogue | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | roll | to-infinitive | rogues = rogue not said here | the cloth | the looms | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme off loom=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the air | with rogues's scissors | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient with scissors=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | sew | past | rogues = rogue not said here | with needles; without any thread; in rogues = rogue | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in they=Destination |
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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