--- title: "Everything," said the emperor, who, having dressed himself in his i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Everything," said the emperor, who, having dressed himself in his imperial robes, stood with the hand that held the heavy golden sword pressed to his heart. Who acts: Everything, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/163/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/) / 163 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 163 "Everything," said the emperor, who, having dressed himself in his imperial robes, stood with the hand that held the heavy golden sword pressed to his heart. **Who acts:** Everything, hand · **What happens:** say, dress, stand, hold, press · **To what, where:** emperor, imperial robes, heavy golden sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, hand), 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:pg27200:125:163 # text = "Everything," said the emperor, who, having dressed himself in his imperial robes, stood with the hand that held the heavy golden sword pressed to his heart. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 aux _ _ 12 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Everything | the emperor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | | 2 | **dress** | gerund · perfect · passive | | the emperor | | emperor's imperial robes | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | past | Everything *not said here* | | | | | with the hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold** | past | the hand | the heavy golden sword | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 5 | **press** | participle | | the heavy golden sword *not said here* | | | | to emperor's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/164/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)