Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 81

The lords of the bedchamber, who were to carry his Majesty's train felt about on the ground, as if they were lifting up the ends of the mantle; and pretended to be carrying something; for they would by no means betray anything like simplicity, or unfitness for their office.

Who acts: lords, train, clothes · What happens: carry, feel, lift up, pretend, mean, betray · To what, where: ground, ends, something, anything · 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 (lords, train, clothes), 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 lords	det
2	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carry	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bedchamber	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bedchamber	det
5	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lords	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carry	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 carry	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Majesty	nmod:poss
12	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 train	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Majesty	case
14	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	conj
16	about	about	ADV	_	15 felt	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lifting	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 lifting	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 lifting	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lifting	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lifting	aux
25	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 felt	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 lifting	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ends	det
28	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lifting	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mantle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mantle	det
31	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ends	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 pretended	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pretended	cc
34	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 carrying	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 carrying	aux
37	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 pretended	advcl
38	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 carrying	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 means	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 would	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 would	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 means	nsubj
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 no	case
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 means	obl
45	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	parataxis
46	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 means	ccomp
47	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 betray	obj
48	like	like	ADP	_	49 simplicity	case
49	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 anything	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 unfitness	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 unfitness	cc
52	unfitness	unfitness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 means	parataxis
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 office	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 office	nmod:poss
55	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 unfitness	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the lords of the bedchamber				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	lord's Majesty's train		the ground	about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	lift up	past · progressive	clothes	the ends of the mantle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
4	pretend	past	the lords of the bedchamber not said here				tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive · progressive	the lords of the bedchamber not said here	something			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	mean	present				by no	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	betray	present		anything		like simplicity	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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