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title: And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much. Who acts: thing, empty. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 57

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And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.

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**Who acts:** thing, empty · **What happens:** smile, look, loom, say, not see, praise · **To what, where:** two officers · **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 (thing, empty), 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:pg1597:2:57
# text = And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looms	loom	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | graciously *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **loom** | present | the empty |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | thing |  |  |  |  | for no account | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **see** | could | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **praise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the two officers of thing's court |  |  |  |  | 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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