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title: So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, “Oh! Who acts: Emperor, people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 82

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So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, “Oh!

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**Who acts:** Emperor, people · **What happens:** walk, stand by, cry out · **To what, where:** people, high canopy, windows

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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 (Emperor, people), 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:pg1597:2:82
# text = So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, “Oh!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
28	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the Emperor | all people |  | Emperor's high canopy in the midst of the procession | now | through the streets of Emperor's capital | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under canopy=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand by** | gerund | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle |  | the windows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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