The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 22

Both the impostors begged him to be so kind as to step closer, and asked him if it were not a beautiful texture and lovely colours.

Who acts: impostors, neighbour · What happens: beg, be, step, ask, not be · To what, where: minister, beautiful texture

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, neighbour), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 impostors	det
3	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	9 kind	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	advcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 step	mark
11	to	to	PART	_	12 step	mark
12	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	xcomp
13	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 step	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 texture	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 texture	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 texture	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 texture	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 texture	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 texture	amod
24	texture	texture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 colours	cc
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 colours	amod
27	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 texture	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the impostors		minister		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive	the impostors not said here			kind property	tree rules
3	step	to-infinitive	the impostors not said here			close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the impostors not said here		minister		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	neighbour	a beautiful texture and lovely colours			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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