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title: So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves we… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms. Who acts: faithful old minister, knaves. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 17

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So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.

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**Who acts:** faithful old minister, knaves · **What happens:** go, work · **To what, where:** hall

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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 (faithful old minister, knaves), 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:pg1597:2:17
# text = So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knaves	knave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	looms	loom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the faithful old minister |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **work** | past · progressive | the knaves |  |  |  |  | at knaves's empty looms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=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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