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title: “Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! Who acts: splendid clothes, men. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 8

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“Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!

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**Who acts:** splendid clothes, men · **What happens:** have, find out, be, distinguish · **To what, where:** splendid clothes, wise · **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, men), 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:pg1597:2:8
# text = “Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | splendid clothes *= clothes* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** *in a quote* | might | splendid clothes *= clothes* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | men in my realms |  |  |  |  | for men's office; unfit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **distinguish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the wise |  |  |  | from the foolish | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent wise=Theme from foolish=Co-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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