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title: And the chamberlains walked along still more uprightly, holding up t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the chamberlains walked along still more uprightly, holding up the train which was not there at all. Who acts: chamberlains, train. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 93

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:6:93
# text = And the chamberlains walked along still more uprightly, holding up the train which was not there at all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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