Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 44

With a number of courtiers, including the two who had already been there, he went to the two clever swindlers, who now worked as hard as they could, but without using any thread.

Who acts: emperor · What happens: be, go, work, use · To what, where: two clever swindlers, thread

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), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 number	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 courtiers	case
5	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 two	punct
7	including	including	ADP	_	9 two	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 courtiers	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 there	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 there	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 there	cop
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 two	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 there	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 swindlers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 swindlers	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 swindlers	nummod
21	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 swindlers	amod
22	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 worked	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 worked	obl
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 worked	advmod
26	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swindlers	acl:relcl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 hard	advmod
28	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 worked	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 using	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 using	cc
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	35 using	mark
35	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 went	advcl
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 thread	det
37	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 using	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 two	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect					there property	tree rules
2	go	past	emperor		the two clever swindlers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to swindler=Initial_Location
3	work	past		the two clever swindlers		now	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	use	gerund	emperor not said here	any thread				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient

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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