The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 39

‘Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?’ asked the two impostors, and they pointed to and described the splendid material which was not there.

Who acts: weaving, beautiful piece, impostors, splendid material · What happens: not be, ask, point, describe · To what, where: beautiful piece, two impostors, splendid material

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 (weaving, beautiful piece, impostors, splendid material), 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	_	7 piece	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 piece	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 piece	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 piece	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 impostors	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 impostors	nummod
15	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 asked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pointed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pointed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pointed	nsubj
19	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 pointed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 described	cc
22	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pointed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 material	det
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 material	amod
25	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 described	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 there	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 there	advmod
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 material	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	weaving	a beautiful piece	of cloth	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	a beautiful piece	the two impostors		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent impostor=Recipient
3	point	past	impostors = impostor			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	describe	past	impostors = impostor not said here	the splendid material		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme
5	not is	past	the splendid material		there property	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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