Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 21

Both swindlers requested him to come near, and asked him if he did not admire the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colours, pointing to the empty looms.

Who acts: swindlers, Heaven · What happens: request, come, ask, not admire, point · To what, where: Heaven, exquisite pattern, empty looms

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, Heaven), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 swindlers	det
2	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 requested	nsubj
3	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 requested	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 requested	xcomp
7	near	near	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 requested	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 admire	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 admire	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 admire	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 admire	advmod
16	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pattern	det
18	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pattern	amod
19	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 admire	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 colours	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 colours	det
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colours	amod
23	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pattern	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pointing	punct
25	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 admire	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 looms	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 looms	det
28	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 looms	amod
29	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pointing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	request	past	both swindlers	Heaven			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	to-infinitive	both swindlers not said here			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	both swindlers not said here		Heaven		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not admire a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Heaven	the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colours			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
5	point	gerund	Heaven not said here		the empty looms		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to loom=Recipient

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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