The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 19

Now the good old minister went into the hall where the two impostors sat working at the empty weaving-looms.

Who acts: good old minister, two impostors · What happens: go, sit, work · To what, where: hall

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 (good old minister, two 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 minister	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minister	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minister	amod
5	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sat	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 impostors	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 impostors	nummod
13	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	advcl
15	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sat	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	21 looms	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 looms	det
18	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looms	amod
19	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looms	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 weaving	punct
21	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 working	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the good old minister	the hall	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	the two impostors				tree rules
3	work	gerund	the two impostors not said here			at the empty weaving looms	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=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: «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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