The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 28

‘Have you nothing to say about it?’ asked one of the men who was weaving.

Who acts: men · What happens: have, say, ask, weave · To what, where: nothing, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nsubj
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 asked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 weaving	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 weaving	aux
18	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 men	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present		nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		nothing not said here	about office	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past		one of the men		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
4	weave	past · progressive	the men			vn run-51.3.2 «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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