--- title: "Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress," said the sw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress," said the swindlers, "that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?" Who acts: suit, swindlers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/64/) [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/) / 64 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 64 "Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress," said the swindlers, "that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?" **Who acts:** suit, swindlers · **What happens:** please, say, assist, put, look · **To what, where:** Majesty, new suit · **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 (suit, swindlers), 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:pg27200:32:64 # text = "Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress," said the swindlers, "that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 undress undress ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 swindlers swindler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 assist assist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **please** *in a quote* | present · do-support | suit | your Majesty | | | now | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the swindlers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **assist** *in a quote* | may | the swindlers | your Majesty | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Beneficiary | | 4 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | the swindlers *not said here* | | | the new suit | before the large looking glass | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination | | 5 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/65/) - ↑ back to [The Emperor's New Suit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/)