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title: What glorious colors!” and at the same time they pointed to the empt… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What glorious colors!” and at the same time they pointed to the empty frames; for they imagined that everyone else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship. Who acts: colors, everyone. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 50

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What glorious colors!” and at the same time they pointed to the empty frames; for they imagined that everyone else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship.

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**Who acts:** colors, everyone · **What happens:** point, imagine, see · **To what, where:** same time, empty frames, exquisite piece · **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 (colors, everyone), 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:pg1597:2:50
# text = What glorious colors!” and at the same time they pointed to the empty frames; for they imagined that everyone else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** *in a quote* | past | colors *= color* | the same time *not said here* | the empty frames |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Theme to frame=Recipient |
| 2 | **imagine** *in a quote* | past | colors *= color* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | could | everyone | this exquisite piece of workmanship |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |

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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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