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title: The old king wore new robes, and the golden crown and sceptre had be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old king wore new robes, and the golden crown and sceptre had been polished up so that he looked quite smart. Who acts: old king, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 56

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The old king wore new robes, and the golden crown and sceptre had been polished up so that he looked quite smart.

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**Who acts:** old king, king · **What happens:** wear, polish up, look · **To what, where:** new robes, golden crown

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, king), 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:pg27200:198:56
# text = The old king wore new robes, and the golden crown and sceptre had been polished up so that he looked quite smart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the old king | new robes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 2 | **polish up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the golden crown and sceptre |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | king |  |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «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.

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