Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 12

They asked for the finest silk and the most precious gold-cloth; all they got they did away with, and worked at the empty looms till late at night.

Who acts: swindlers, all · What happens: ask, get, do away, work

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, all), 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 silk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silk	det
5	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 silk	amod
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cloth	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cloth	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 precious	advmod
10	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloth	amod
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cloth	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 gold	punct
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silk	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 got	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	ccomp
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	19 did	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 worked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 worked	cc
24	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 looms	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 looms	det
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looms	amod
28	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 worked	obl
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 late	mark
30	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looms	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 late	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	swindlers = swindler	for the finest silk and the precious gold cloth	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	all		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do away	past	swindlers = swindler	away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	past	all not said here	at the empty looms	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=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: «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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