Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 67
And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, “Here are your Majesty's trousers!
Who acts: Emperor, rogues, trousers · What happens: come, raise, hold up, say, be · To what, where: weavers, arms, something · 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 (Emperor, rogues, trousers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Emperor | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grandees | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 grandees | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 grandees | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grandees | det |
| 9 | grandees | grandee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Emperor | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 court | nmod:poss |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grandees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Emperor | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 weavers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 weavers | det |
| 17 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 raised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 raised | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rogues | det |
| 21 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 raised | nsubj |
| 22 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 raised | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 act | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 act | case |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 act | mark |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 act | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 act | det |
| 30 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raised | advcl |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 holding | mark |
| 32 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 act | advcl |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 holding | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 holding | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saying | punct |
| 36 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 raised | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Here | punct |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Here | punct |
| 39 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 saying | advmod |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Here | cop |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 42 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Majesty | case |
| 44 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Here | nsubj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Emperor | the weavers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to weaver=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | the rogues | rogues's arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold up | gerund | the rogues not said here | something | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | the rogues not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | your trousers | here 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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