The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 23

They pointed to the empty loom, and the poor old minister went forward rubbing his eyes; but he could see nothing, for there was nothing there.

Who acts: impostors, poor old minister, minister, nothing · What happens: point, go, rub, see, be · To what, where: empty loom, eyes, nothing

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, poor old minister, minister, nothing), 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 pointed	nsubj
2	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 loom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loom	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loom	amod
6	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pointed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 minister	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 minister	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 minister	amod
12	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pointed	conj
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rubbing	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pointed	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 see	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 was	nsubj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 nothing	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	point	past	impostors = impostor		the empty loom			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to loom=Recipient
2	go	past	the poor old minister				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rub	gerund	the poor old minister not said here	minister's eyes				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	see	could	minister	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	be	past	nothing			there		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: «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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