Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 90
And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.
Who acts: lords, train · What happens: take, appear, hold up, be, hold · To what, where: greater pains, train, reality
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), 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 | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lords | det |
| 3 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bedchamber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bedchamber | det |
| 6 | bedchamber | bedchamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lords | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 pains | amod |
| 9 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appear | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 appear | mark |
| 14 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | parataxis |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 appear | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 holding | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 train | det |
| 18 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holding | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 although | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 reality | case |
| 23 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reality | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appear | advcl |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 train | det |
| 28 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 train | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the lords of the bedchamber | greater pains | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | hold up | gerund | a train | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot train=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no train | reality; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reality=Location | ||||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive | no train not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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