--- title: “The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the processio… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting,” announced the chief master of the ceremonies. Who acts: canopy, chief master. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/78/) [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/) / 78 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 78 “The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting,” announced the chief master of the ceremonies. **Who acts:** canopy, chief master · **What happens:** bear, wait, announce · **To what, where:** canopy, Majesty · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (canopy, chief master), 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:pg1597:2:78 # text = “The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting,” announced the chief master of the ceremonies. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ceremonies ceremony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive | the canopy *not said here* | the canopy | | your Majesty | | in the procession | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the canopy | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the chief master of the ceremonies | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/79/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)