The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 35
The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving.
Who acts: impostors · What happens: want, use, weave · To what, where: more money, weaving
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 impostors | det |
| 2 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 silk | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 silk | amod |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gold | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gold | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 gold | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 use | mark |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gold | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 weaving | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 weaving | nmod:poss |
| 18 | weaving | weaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the impostors | more money and more silk | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | the impostors not said here | impostors's weaving | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | weave | impostors = impostor | nom weaving «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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