Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 27

"Now, have you got nothing to say?" said one of the swindlers, while he pretended to be busily weaving.

Who acts: you, one, cloth · What happens: have, get, say, pretend, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, one, cloth), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 got	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 swindlers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 swindlers	det
16	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pretended	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 pretended	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pretended	nsubj
20	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	24 weaving	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 weaving	cop
23	busily	busily	ADV	_	24 weaving	advmod
24	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 pretended	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present			now		tree rules
2	get in a quote	past	you	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	past	one of the swindlers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pretend	past	cloth				tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive	cloth not said here			busily, weave property	tree rules

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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