--- title: The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! Who acts: Emperor, people, procession. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/89/) [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/) / 89 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 89 The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! **Who acts:** Emperor, people, procession · **What happens:** vex, know, be, think, go on · **To what, where:** Emperor · **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 (Emperor, people, procession), 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:pg1597:2:89 # text = The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 vexed vex VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 on on ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vex** | past · passive | | the Emperor | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **know** | past | Emperor | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the people | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Emperor | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **go on** | must | the procession | | | | now | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/90/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/2/)