Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 37

"Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?" asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist.

Who acts: thread, beautiful piece, magnificent pattern · What happens: not be, ask, show, explain, not exist · To what, where: beautiful piece, two swindlers · 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 (thread, beautiful piece, magnificent pattern), 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	_	7 piece	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 piece	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 piece	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 piece	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swindlers	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 swindlers	nummod
15	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 asked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 showing	punct
17	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asked	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 explaining	cc
19	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 showing	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pattern	det
21	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pattern	amod
22	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 explaining	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 exist	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 exist	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 which	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	30 exist	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 exist	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 exist	advmod
30	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pattern	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	thread	a beautiful piece	of cloth	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	a beautiful piece	the two swindlers		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swindler=Recipient
3	show	gerund	a beautiful piece not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	explain speech: assert	gerund	the magnificent pattern			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not exist	past · do-support	the magnificent pattern		however property	vn exist-47.1 «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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