Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 75
The chamberlains, who were to carry the train, stretched their hands to the ground as if they lifted up a train, and pretended to hold something in their hands; they did not like people to know that they could not see anything.
Who acts: chamberlains, people · What happens: carry, stretch, lift up, pretend, hold, not like · To what, where: train, hands, something, people, anything
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 (chamberlains, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chamberlains | det |
| 2 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chamberlains | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 train | det |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chamberlains | punct |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 lifted | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 lifted | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lifted | nsubj |
| 20 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretched | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 lifted | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 train | det |
| 23 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pretended | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pretended | cc |
| 26 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretched | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hold | mark |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pretended | xcomp |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 hold | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hands | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 like | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 like | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 like | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 like | advmod |
| 37 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pretended | conj |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 like | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 like | xcomp |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 see | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 see | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 see | advmod |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 know | advcl |
| 46 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 see | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the chamberlains | the train | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | the chamberlains | chamberlains's hands | to the ground result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 3 | lift up | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | a train | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pretend | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive | something | chamberlains's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 6 | not like | past · do-support | chamberlains = chamberlain | people | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | chamberlains = chamberlain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | not see | could | people | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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