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title: And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly. Who acts: Emperor, sums. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 10

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And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, sums · **What happens:** cause, give, begin, sum, work · **To what, where:** large sums, order, work, money

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, sums), 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:pg1597:2:10
# text = And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc:preconj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | Emperor | large sums of money both the weavers |  | order |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sum=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive | Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» |
| 3 | **begin** | might | sums *= sum* | sums's work |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **work** |  | sums *= sum* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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