Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 10
And he gave a large sum of money to the swindlers, in advance, that they should set to work without any loss of time.
Who acts: cloth, swindlers · What happens: give, set, work, sum · To what, where: large sum, swindlers, advance, money
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, swindlers), 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 | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sum | amod |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sum | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 swindlers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swindlers | det |
| 11 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 advance | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 advance | case |
| 14 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | aux |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 work | mark |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 set | xcomp |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 loss | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 loss | det |
| 24 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 work | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loss | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | cloth | a large sum of money | the swindlers | advance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to swindler=Recipient | ||
| 2 | set | should | swindlers = swindler | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | swindlers = swindler not said here | without any loss of time | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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