Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 85
And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
Who acts: chamberlains, train · What happens: walk, carry, not exist · To what, where: train
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, train), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chamberlains | det |
| 3 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dignity | case |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 greater | advmod |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 dignity | amod |
| 8 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 train | det |
| 15 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 exist | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 exist | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 exist | advmod |
| 19 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 train | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the chamberlains | with greater dignity | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry a condition, not said to happen | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | the train | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not exist | past · do-support | the train | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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