--- title: The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit. Who acts: rogues, procession, sixteen lights, everyone. A sentence of «Andersen's Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/63/) [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/) / 63 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 63 The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit. **Who acts:** rogues, procession, sixteen lights, everyone · **What happens:** sit up, be, have, burn, see, finish · **To what, where:** sixteen lights, anxious, new suit 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, procession, sixteen lights, everyone), 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:pg1597:2:63 # text = The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rogues rogue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 33 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 34 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obj _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 36 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit up** | past | the rogues | | | | day | whole *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the procession | | | | on the day | take *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | | sixteen lights | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | sixteen lights *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | might | everyone | anxious | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anxious=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **finish** | to-infinitive | | the Emperor's new suit | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suit=Eventuality | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/64/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)