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title: What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!” in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office. Who acts: magnificent train, scarf, on
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 84

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What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!” in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office.

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**Who acts:** magnificent train, scarf, one, Emperor · **What happens:** be, hang, allow, not see, admire, do · **To what, where:** short, admired clothes, Emperor

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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 (magnificent train, scarf, one, 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:pg1597:2:84
# text = What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!” in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office.
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
32	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	_
47	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc:preconj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	xcomp	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | what magnificent train |  |  | there |  | to the mantle | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | present | the scarf |  |  | short |  | gracefully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in short=Location |
| 3 | **allow** *in a quote* | would | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | could | Emperor | this admired clothes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus |
| 5 | **admire** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **declare** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would · perfect | Emperor | Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |

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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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