The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 5

One day two impostors arrived who gave themselves out as weavers, and said that they knew how to manufacture the most beautiful cloth imaginable.

Who acts: two impostors, impostors · What happens: arrive, give out, say, know, manufacture · To what, where: impostors, beautiful cloth · 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 (two impostors, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	obl:unmarked
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 impostors	nummod
4	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 gave	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 gave	compound:prt
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 weavers	case
11	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 manufacture	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 manufacture	mark
20	manufacture	manufacture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cloth	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cloth	amod
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 manufacture	obj
25	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 manufacture	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	two impostors		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give out	past		impostors = impostor		as weavers	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	two impostors not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	past	impostors = impostor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	manufacture	to-infinitive	impostors = impostor not said here	the beautiful cloth		imaginable property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Result

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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