Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 60

The emperor and all his barons then came to the hall; the swindlers held their arms up as if they held something in their hands and said: "These are the trousers!" "

Who acts: emperor, swindlers, These · What happens: come, hold, say, be · To what, where: hall, arms, something, hands, trousers · 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 (emperor, swindlers, These), 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	2 emperor	det
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barons	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 barons	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 barons	nmod:poss
6	barons	baron	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 emperor	conj
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swindlers	det
14	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obj
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 arms	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 held	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 held	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	advcl
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 held	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hands	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 something	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 trousers	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 trousers	punct
31	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 trousers	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 trousers	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 trousers	det
34	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 said	ccomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 trousers	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 trousers	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the emperor and emperor's barons		the hall	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
2	hold	past	the swindlers	swindlers's arms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	hold	past	swindlers = swindler	something	swindlers's hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme in hand=Location
4	say speech: express	past	the swindlers not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	These	the trousers			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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