The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 93

And the chamberlains walked along still more uprightly, holding up the train which was not there at all.

Who acts: chamberlains, train · What happens: walk, hold up, not be · To what, where: train, all

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, train), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamberlains	det
3	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 uprightly	advmod
8	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walked	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 holding	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 train	det
13	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 there	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 there	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 train	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 there	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the chamberlains			along, uprightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold up	gerund	the chamberlains not said here	the train			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot train=Theme
3	not is	past	the train		all	there property	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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