Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 34

They kept everything for themselves, and not a thread came near the loom, but they continued, as hitherto, to work at the empty looms.

Who acts: swindlers, thread · What happens: keep, not come, continue, work · To what, where: everything, loom

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, thread), 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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 kept	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 kept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 came	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thread	det
10	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 loom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loom	det
14	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 continued	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 continued	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 continued	nsubj
18	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hitherto	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 hitherto	case
21	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	18 continued	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 work	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 continued	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 work	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	swindlers = swindler	everything		for swindlers = swindler	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	not come	past	a thread		the loom		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near loom=Location
3	continue	past	swindlers = swindler			hitherto property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	work	to-infinitive	swindlers = swindler 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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