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title: Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid. Who acts: Nobody, others, emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 79

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Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, others, emperor · **What happens:** wish, let, know, see, be · **To what, where:** others, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nobody, others, emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:32:79
# text = Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | emperor | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | would · perfect | emperor |  |  |  |  | for emperor's office; unfit *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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