--- title: “Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?” asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there. Who acts: stuff, officer, impostors, same time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/) / 38 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 38 “Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?” asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there. **Who acts:** stuff, officer, impostors, same time, design · **What happens:** appear, do, ask, make, talk, not be · **To what, where:** same gestures · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (stuff, officer, impostors, same time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:2:38 # text = “Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?” asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 22 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 impostors impostor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 ambassador ambassador NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 36 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 gestures gesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 before before ADV RB _ 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 design design NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 colors color NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 51 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 47 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the stuff | | | | | as beautiful | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | officer | | | | | to my lord the minister | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | gerund | the same time *not said here* | the same gestures | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador *not said here* | | | | | of the design and colors | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | the design and colors | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/39/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)