The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 36

They put it all in their own pockets, and there came no threads on the loom, but they went on as they had done before, working at the empty loom.

Who acts: impostors · What happens: put, come, go on, do, work · To what, where: money, own pockets, threads, loom

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	8 pockets	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pockets	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pockets	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pockets	amod
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 came	expl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 threads	det
14	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 loom	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 loom	det
17	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threads	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
27	before	before	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 working	punct
29	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 done	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 loom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 loom	det
32	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 loom	amod
33	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 working	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	impostors = impostor	money	impostors's own pockets		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination
2	come	past		no threads	the loom; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thread=Theme
3	go on	past	impostors = impostor				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	impostors = impostor			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work	gerund	impostors = impostor not said here			at the empty loom	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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