Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 11

They set up two looms, and pretended to be very hard at work, but they did nothing whatever on the looms.

Who acts: swindlers · What happens: set up, pretend, be, do · To what, where: two looms, work, nothing

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 looms	nummod
5	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pretended	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pretended	cc
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	12 hard	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hard	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretended	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 work	case
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hard	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretended	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 did	obj
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 nothing	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 looms	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 looms	det
23	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 whatever	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set up	past	swindlers = swindler	two looms			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient loom=Result
2	pretend	past					tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive			work	hard property	tree rules
4	do	past	swindlers = swindler	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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