The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 64
Throughout the whole of the night before the morning on which the procession was to take place, the impostors were up and were working by the light of over sixteen candles.
Who acts: impostors · What happens: be, work, light · To what, where: sixteen candles
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 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 3 whole | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whole | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whole | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 morning | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 procession | det |
| 13 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 which | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 procession | acl:relcl |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 working | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 impostors | det |
| 20 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 working | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 working | aux |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 were | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 working | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 working | aux |
| 25 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 place | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 working | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 candles | case |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 sixteen | advmod |
| 31 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 candles | nummod |
| 32 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 light | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | take property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | past · progressive | the impostors | by the light of sixteen candles | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | light | sixteen candles | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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