--- title: “If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off you… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit, in front of the looking glass.” Who acts: Imperial Majesty, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/72/) [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/) / 72 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 72 “If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit, in front of the looking glass.” **Who acts:** Imperial Majesty, we · **What happens:** be, take off, fit, look · **To what, where:** clothes, 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 (Imperial Majesty, we), 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:pg1597:2:72 # text = “If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit, in front of the looking glass.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | your Imperial Majesty | | | | | graciously, pleased *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | your Imperial Majesty *not said here* | your clothes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 3 | **fit** *in a quote* | future | we | | | the new suit | | in front of the looking glass | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on suit=Trajectory | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/73/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)