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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 6

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They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.

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**Who acts:** rogues, beautiful colors, wonderful property, Emperor · **What happens:** give out, know, weave, manufacture, have, remain · **To what, where:** stuffs, clothes, wonderful property, office, character

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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 (rogues, beautiful colors, wonderful property, Emperor), 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:pg1597:2:6
# text = They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	conj	_	_
22	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	extraordinarily	extraordinarily	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | past | rogues *= rogue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | rogues *= rogue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **weave** | to-infinitive | rogues *= rogue* *not said here* | stuffs of the beautiful colors and elaborate patterns and the clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Product |
| 4 | **manufacture** | participle |  | the clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | should | the beautiful colors and elaborate patterns and the clothes | the wonderful property |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient |
| 6 | **remain** | gerund | the wonderful property *not said here* |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the office; unfit *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **hold** | past | Emperor | the office *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  | character |  | extraordinarily, simple *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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