--- title: Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them in order to be beautifully dressed. Who acts: Emperor, he. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/1/) [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/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4).…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/) / 1 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 1 Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them in order to be beautifully dressed. **Who acts:** Emperor, he · **What happens:** live, be, spend, dress · **To what, where:** money, order This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, he), 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:pg640:6:1 # text = Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them in order to be beautifully dressed. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 obl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | | | | there | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a Emperor | | | | | of new clothes; fond *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spend** | past | he | his money | | order | | on clothes | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on they=Goal | | 4 | **dress** | to-infinitive · passive | he *not said here* | | | | | beautifully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | 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: [The Dragon of the North(2), 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/202/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/2/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/)