Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 19
The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat before the empty looms. "
Who acts: good old minister, swindlers, empty · What happens: go, sit, loom · To what, where: room
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 (good old minister, swindlers, empty), 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 | 4 minister | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 4 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 sat | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swindlers | det |
| 11 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 room | acl:relcl |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 looms | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 empty | det |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looms | nsubj |
| 16 | looms | loom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the good old minister | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the swindlers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | loom | present | the empty | 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: «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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