The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 46

With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread.

Who acts: Emperor, worthy statesmen, cunning impostors · What happens: be, have, go, weave · To what, where: worthy statesmen, cunning impostors

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 (Emperor, worthy statesmen, cunning 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 crowd	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowd	amod
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 followers	case
6	select	select	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 followers	amod
7	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowd	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 statesmen	punct
9	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 statesmen	obl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 statesmen	cop
12	both	both	CCONJ	_	15 statesmen	cc:preconj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 statesmen	det
14	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 statesmen	amod
15	statesmen	statesman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowd	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 statesmen	acl:relcl
18	already	already	ADV	_	20 there	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 there	cop
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	advmod
21	before	before	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crowd	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 impostors	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 impostors	det
27	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 impostors	amod
28	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 weaving	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 weaving	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 weaving	aux
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 weaving	advmod
33	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 impostors	acl
34	with	with	SCONJ	_	37 might	mark
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 might	det:predet
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 might	nmod:poss
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 weaving	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fibre	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 fibre	cc
40	without	without	ADP	_	41 fibre	case
41	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 thread	cc
43	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fibre	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Emperor not said here	the worthy statesmen			amongst a great crowd of select followers both the worthy statesmen	tree rules
2	have	past	the worthy statesmen				before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle					there property	tree rules
4	go	past	Emperor		the cunning impostors		with a great crowd of select followers both the worthy statesmen; without fibre or thread	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to impostor=Initial_Location
5	weave	past · progressive	the cunning impostors			now		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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