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title: The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready. Who acts: Emperor, men, cloth. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 36

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The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, men, cloth · **What happens:** send, see, get on, ascertain, be · **To what, where:** officer · **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 (Emperor, men, cloth), 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:pg1597:2:36
# text = The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	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 | **send** | past | the Emperor | another officer of Emperor's court |  |  | now |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **get on** | past · progressive | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ascertain** | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | the cloth |  |  |  |  | ready, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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