--- title: It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent," one heard them say; everyb… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent," one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers "Imperial Court weavers." Who acts: procession, one, clothes, everybody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (procession, one, clothes, everybody), 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:pg27200:32:56 # text = It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent," one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers "Imperial Court weavers." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ _ 16 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 appointed appoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 swindlers swindler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Imperial Imperial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | procession | | | | | magnificent *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | procession *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | procession *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | one | clothes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | clothes *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | everybody | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | everybody *not said here* | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **appoint** *in a quote* | past | the emperor | the two swindlers and Court weavers | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swindler=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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/57/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)