The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 83
The chamberlains who were used to carry the train put their hands near the floor as if they were lifting up the train; then they did as if they were holding something in the air.
Who acts: chamberlains · What happens: use, carry, put, lift up, do, hold · To what, where: chamberlains, train, hands, floor, something, air
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 (chamberlains), 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 chamberlains | det |
| 2 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chamberlains | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 train | det |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 lifting | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 lifting | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lifting | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lifting | aux |
| 20 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 lifting | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 train | det |
| 23 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifting | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 did | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 holding | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 holding | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 holding | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 holding | aux |
| 32 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 did | advcl |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 holding | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 air | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 air | det |
| 36 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 holding | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the chamberlains | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | the train | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the chamberlains | chamberlains's hands | the floor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme near floor=Destination | |||
| 4 | lift up | past · progressive | chamberlains = chamberlain | the train | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hold | past · progressive | chamberlains = chamberlain | something | the air | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme in air=Location |
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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