--- title: They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: "The emperor's new suit is ready now." Who acts: people, new suit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emp --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/59/) [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/) / 59 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 59 They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: "The emperor's new suit is ready now." **Who acts:** people, new suit · **What happens:** pretend, take, work, sew, say, be · **To what, where:** cloth, loom, last · **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 (people, new suit), 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:pg27200:32:59 # text = They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: "The emperor's new suit is ready now." 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 loom loom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 41 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the cloth | | the loom | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from loom=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **work** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | with big scissors; in the air; about *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | | 4 | **sew** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | with needles; without thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with needle=Co-Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people *not said here* | | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the emperor's new suit | | | | now | ready *property* | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/60/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)