Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 57
The whole night previous to the day on which the procession was to take place, the swindlers pretended to work, and burned more than sixteen candles.
Who acts: swindlers · What happens: be, pretend, work, burn · To what, where: place, sixteen candles
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 previous | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 previous | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 procession | det |
| 11 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 which | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 procession | acl:relcl |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pretended | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swindlers | det |
| 18 | swindlers | swindler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pretended | nsubj |
| 19 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 work | mark |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pretended | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 burned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 burned | cc |
| 24 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pretended | conj |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 sixteen | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 candles | nummod |
| 28 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burned | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 previous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | take property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the swindlers | place not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the swindlers not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | burn | past | the swindlers not said here | sixteen candles | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent candle=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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