The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 11
They placed two weaving-looms, and began to do as if they were working, but they had not the least thing on the looms.
Who acts: impostors · What happens: place, weave, begin, do, work, have · To what, where: two, looms, least thing
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (impostors), 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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 placed | advcl |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 looms | punct |
| 6 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weaving | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 working | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 working | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 working | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 working | aux |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 do | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 thing | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 23 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 looms | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 looms | det |
| 27 | looms | loom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | impostors = impostor | two | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | gerund | impostors = impostor not said here | looms | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loom=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | work | past · progressive | impostors = impostor | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | past | impostors = impostor | the least thing | the looms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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