Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 62

They are all as light as a cobweb, and one must feel as if one had nothing at all upon the body; but that is just the beauty of them."

Who acts: swindlers, one, that · What happens: be, feel, have · To what, where: nothing, all, beauty

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, one, that), 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	5 light	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 cobweb	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cobweb	det
8	cobweb	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feel	cc
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	aux
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	ccomp
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 nothing	nmod
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 body	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 body	det
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 all	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 beauty	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 beauty	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 beauty	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 beauty	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	30 beauty	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beauty	det
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beauty	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	swindlers = swindler			as a cobweb; all, light property	tree rules
2	feel	must	one				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	one	nothing	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	is a	present	that	the beauty		of swindlers = swindler	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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