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title: The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass. Who acts: rogues, Emperor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tr
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 73

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The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass.

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**Who acts:** rogues, Emperor · **What happens:** undress, pretend, array, turn round, look · **To what, where:** Emperor, new suit, side

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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, 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:pg1597:2:73
# text = The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	undressed	undress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	array	array	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undress** | past · passive |  | the Emperor |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | the rogues |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **array** | to-infinitive | the rogues *not said here* | Emperor |  | Emperor's new suit |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn round** | gerund | the Emperor |  |  | side to side | before the looking glass | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Source before glass=Trajectory |
| 5 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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