--- title: Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid. Who acts: colours, clothes, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/6/) [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/) / 6 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 6 Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid. **Who acts:** colours, clothes, man · **What happens:** say, not be, make, possess, be · **To what, where:** clothes, wonderful quality · **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 (colours, clothes, man), 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:pg27200:32:6 # text = Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 exceptionally exceptionally ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 22 nsubj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 possessed possess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 cop _ _ 28 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 unfit unfit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 unpardonably unpardonably ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people's colours and patterns | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | | | | | | beautiful, exceptionally *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | the clothes *not said here* | | | | of people's material | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **possess** | past | the clothes | the wonderful quality | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=Theme | | 5 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to any man; invisible *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | any man | | | | | for man's office; unfit *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | any man *not said here* | | | | | unpardonably *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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/7/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)