The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 12

They also demanded the finest silk and the best gold, which they put in their pockets, and worked at the empty looms till late into the night.

Who acts: impostors, best gold, empty looms · What happens: demand, put, work, till · To what, where: finest silk, pockets

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, best gold, empty looms), 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	3 demanded	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 demanded	advmod
3	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silk	det
5	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 silk	amod
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 demanded	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gold	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 gold	amod
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silk	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 put	nsubj:outer
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gold	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pockets	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pockets	nmod:poss
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 worked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 worked	cc
20	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 demanded	conj
21	at	at	SCONJ	_	25 till	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 looms	det
23	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looms	amod
24	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 till	nsubj
25	till	till	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 worked	ccomp
26	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 till	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 night	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 till	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	impostors = impostor	the finest silk and the best gold				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme silk=Precondition
2	put	past	the best gold		impostors's pockets			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination
3	work	past	impostors = impostor not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	till	present	the empty looms			night	late property	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: «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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