The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 67

The Emperor came himself with his most distinguished knights, and each impostor held up his arm just as if he were holding something, and said, ‘See! here are the breeches!

Who acts: Emperor, impostor · What happens: come, hold up, hold, say, see, be · To what, where: Emperor, arm, something, breeches · 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 (Emperor, impostor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 came	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 knights	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knights	nmod:poss
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 knights	amod
8	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knights	amod
9	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 impostor	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 impostor	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 impostor	det
13	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 impostor	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 held	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arm	nmod:poss
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
18	just	just	ADV	_	23 holding	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 holding	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 holding	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 holding	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 holding	aux
23	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 held	advcl
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 holding	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 See	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 See	punct
30	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 See	punct
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 See	advmod
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 breeches	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 breeches	det
35	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 See	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Emperor	Emperor		with Emperor's most distinguished knights; each impostor obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
2	hold up	participle	each impostor not said here	Emperor's arm			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arm=Theme
3	hold	past · progressive	Emperor	something			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	infinitive			here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present		the breeches			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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