The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 66
They pretended they were taking the cloth from the loom, cut with huge scissors in the air, sewed with needles without thread, and then said at last, ‘Now the clothes are finished!’
Who acts: people · What happens: pretend, take, cut, sew, say, finish · To what, where: cloth, loom, last, clothes · 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 (people), 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 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pretended | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloth | det |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 loom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loom | det |
| 10 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taking | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 scissors | case |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scissors | amod |
| 15 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cut | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scissors | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sewed | punct |
| 20 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 needles | case |
| 22 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sewed | obl |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 thread | case |
| 24 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sewed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 said | advmod |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 finished | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 finished | punct |
| 33 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 finished | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clothes | det |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 37 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 finished | aux:pass |
| 37 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pretended | parataxis |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 finished | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | people | the cloth | the loom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from loom=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | people not said here | with huge scissors in the air | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with scissors=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | sew | past | people not said here | with needles; without thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with needle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | people not said here | last | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | finish | present · passive | the clothes | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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