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title: “We shall be much obliged to you,” said the impostors, and then they… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “We shall be much obliged to you,” said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff. Who acts: impostors, pretended stuff. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 33

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“We shall be much obliged to you,” said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.

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**Who acts:** impostors, pretended stuff · **What happens:** oblige, say, name, describe, pretend, pattern · **To what, where:** We, you, different colors, pattern · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (impostors, pretended stuff), 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:pg1597:2:33
# text = “We shall be much obliged to you,” said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	impostors	impostor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | We | you |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the impostors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **name** | past | impostors *= impostor* | the different colors |  |  | then |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Theme |
| 4 | **describe** | past | impostors *= impostor* *not said here* | the pattern of the pretended stuff |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 5 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pattern** |  | the pretended stuff |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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