Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 35
Soon afterwards the emperor sent another honest courtier to the weavers to see how they were getting on, and if the cloth was nearly finished.
Who acts: emperor, swindlers · What happens: send, see, get on, finish · To what, where: honest courtier, weavers, cloth · 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 (emperor, swindlers), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 courtier | det |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 courtier | amod |
| 8 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 weavers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weavers | det |
| 11 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 getting | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 getting | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 getting | aux |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 getting | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 finished | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 finished | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 finished | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cloth | det |
| 23 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 finished | aux:pass |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 finished | advmod |
| 26 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the emperor | another honest courtier | the weavers | afterwards property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent courtier=Theme to weaver=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get on | past · progressive | swindlers = swindler | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | finish a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the cloth | nearly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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