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title: All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful proper… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be. Who acts: people, cloth, all, neighbors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor'
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 15

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All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be.

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**Who acts:** people, cloth, all, neighbors · **What happens:** hear, be, learn, prove

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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 (people, cloth, all, neighbors), 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:pg1597:2:15
# text = All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | all people throughout the city |  |  |  |  | of the wonderful property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of property=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the cloth |  |  |  |  | possess *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prove** | might | people's neighbors |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | to-infinitive | people's neighbors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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