--- title: "I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers," thought the em… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers," thought the emperor. " Who acts: emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, 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/pg27200/32/17/) [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 Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/) / 17 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 17 "I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers," thought the emperor. " **Who acts:** emperor · **What happens:** send, think · **To what, where:** honest old minister, weavers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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:pg27200:32:17 # text = "I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers," thought the emperor. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** *in a quote* | shall | the emperor *= emperor* | my honest old minister | | the weavers | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to weaver=Destination | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the emperor | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/18/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)