Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 33
Now the swindlers asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weaving.
Who acts: swindlers, gold cloth · What happens: ask, require, weave
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, gold 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swindlers | det |
| 3 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 silk | punct |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cloth | cc |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloth | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 required | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 required | nsubj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 required | nsubj |
| 17 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 weaving | mark |
| 19 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 required | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the swindlers | now | for more money and silk and gold cloth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | require | past | gold cloth | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weave | gerund | gold cloth not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «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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