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title: “These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!” thought the Emperor. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!” thought the Emperor. Who acts: splendid clothes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 7

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“These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!” thought the Emperor.

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**Who acts:** splendid clothes · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** splendid clothes, Emperor · **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 (splendid clothes), 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:pg1597:2:7
# text = “These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!” thought the Emperor.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must |  | splendid clothes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | splendid clothes | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot emperor=Theme |

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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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