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title: However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before at their empty looms. Who acts: impostors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 35

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However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before at their empty looms.

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**Who acts:** impostors · **What happens:** put, give, continue, work · **To what, where:** that, knapsacks

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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), 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:pg1597:2:35
# text = However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before at their empty looms.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	knapsacks	knapsack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	looms	loom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | impostors *= impostor* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | that |  | impostors's knapsacks |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme |
| 3 | **continue** | past | impostors *= impostor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | impostors *= impostor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with much apparent diligence; at impostors's empty looms | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent with diligence=Co-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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