--- title: ‘Anything!’ said the Emperor, standing up in his Imperial robes, whi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Anything!’ said the Emperor, standing up in his Imperial robes, which he had himself put on, and fastening on his sword richly embossed with gold. Who acts: Emperor, Imperial robes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, Imperial robes), 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:pg640:48:190 # text = ‘Anything!’ said the Emperor, standing up in his Imperial robes, which he had himself put on, and fastening on his sword richly embossed with gold. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 21 on on ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 fastening fasten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 richly richly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 embossed emboss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Emperor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand up** | gerund | the Emperor *not said here* | | | Emperor's Imperial robes | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in robe=Location | | 3 | **have** | past | Emperor | Emperor's Imperial robes | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put on** | participle | Emperor's Imperial robes *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fasten** | gerund | the Emperor *not said here* | | | | | on Emperor's sword | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on sword=Co-Patient | | 6 | **emboss** | participle | the Emperor *not said here* | | | | | with gold; richly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/189/) - next →: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/191/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/)