--- title: “Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,” said he to his sovereign whe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,” said he to his sovereign when he returned, “the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.” Who acts: Imperial Majesty, Majesty, weavers, cloth. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, Majesty, weavers, cloth), 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:pg1597:2:43 # text = “Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,” said he to his sovereign when he returned, “the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Indeed indeed ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 please please INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 preparing prepare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 extraordinarily extraordinarily ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | your Imperial Majesty | | Majesty's sovereign | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sovereign=Recipient | | 2 | **return** | past | Majesty | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **prepare** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the weavers | the cloth | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the cloth | | | | | extraordinarily, magnificent *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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/44/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)