Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 59
They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: "The emperor's new suit is ready now."
Who acts: people, new suit · What happens: pretend, take, work, sew, say, be · To what, where: cloth, loom, last · 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 (people, new suit), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 loom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loom | det |
| 9 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 worked | cc |
| 12 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 worked | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worked | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 scissors | case |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scissors | amod |
| 19 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 worked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sewed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sewed | cc |
| 22 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 needles | case |
| 24 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sewed | obl |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 thread | case |
| 26 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sewed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 ready | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 ready | punct |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 emperor | det |
| 35 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 suit | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 emperor | case |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 suit | amod |
| 38 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ready | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 ready | cop |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | ccomp |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 ready | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 ready | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | people not said here | the cloth | the loom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from loom=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | work | past | people not said here | with big scissors; in the air; about property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sew | past | people not said here | with needles; without thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with needle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | people not said here | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the emperor's new suit | now | ready property | tree rules |
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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