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title: And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, “Here are your Majesty's trousers! Who acts: Emperor, rogues, trousers. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Empe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 67

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And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, “Here are your Majesty's trousers!

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**Who acts:** Emperor, rogues, trousers · **What happens:** come, raise, hold up, say, be · **To what, where:** weavers, arms, something · **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 (Emperor, rogues, trousers), 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:pg1597:2:67
# text = And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, “Here are your Majesty's trousers!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grandees	grandee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Emperor |  |  | the weavers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to weaver=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **raise** | past | the rogues | rogues's arms |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **hold up** | gerund | the rogues *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | the rogues *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your trousers |  |  |  |  | here *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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