Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 5

One day two swindlers came to this city; they made people believe that they were weavers, and declared they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined.

Who acts: two swindlers, swindlers, people · What happens: come, make, believe, be, declare, manufacture · To what, where: city, weavers, finest 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 (two swindlers, swindlers, people), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 swindlers	nummod
4	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 believe	nsubj
13	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 weavers	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 weavers	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 weavers	cop
17	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 believe	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 declared	cc
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 manufacture	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manufacture	aux
23	manufacture	manufacture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 declared	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cloth	det
25	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 cloth	amod
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 manufacture	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 imagined	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 imagined	aux:pass
29	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 manufacture	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	two swindlers		this city	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
2	make	past	swindlers = swindler				tree rules
3	believe	present	people				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	people	weavers			tree rules
5	declare speech: other	past	two swindlers not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	manufacture	could	people	the finest cloth			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Result
7	imagine	to-infinitive · passive	people not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»

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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