--- title: "Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?" asked the two swindlers, sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?" asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist. Who acts: thread, beautiful piece, magnificent pattern. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/37/) [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/) / 37 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 37 "Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?" asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist. **Who acts:** thread, beautiful piece, magnificent pattern · **What happens:** not be, ask, show, explain, not exist · **To what, where:** beautiful piece, two swindlers · **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 (thread, beautiful piece, magnificent pattern), 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:pg27200:32:37 # text = "Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?" asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 swindlers swindler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 explaining explain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 however however ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 exist exist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | thread | a beautiful piece | | | | of cloth | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a beautiful piece | the two swindlers | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swindler=Recipient | | 3 | **show** | gerund | a beautiful piece *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | the magnificent pattern | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | the magnificent pattern | | | | | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:** «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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/38/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)