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title: Now he certainly believed that he had nothing to fear for himself, b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he certainly believed that he had nothing to fear for himself, but he wanted first to send somebody else in order to see how he stood with regard to his office. Who acts: cloth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its de
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 15

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Now he certainly believed that he had nothing to fear for himself, but he wanted first to send somebody else in order to see how he stood with regard to his office.

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**Who acts:** cloth · **What happens:** believe, have, fear, want, send, see · **To what, where:** nothing, somebody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cloth), 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:pg640:6:15
# text = Now he certainly believed that he had nothing to fear for himself, but he wanted first to send somebody else in order to see how he stood with regard to his office.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	fixed	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | cloth |  |  |  | now | certainly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | cloth | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **fear** | to-infinitive | cloth *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | for cloth | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for himself=Attribute |
| 4 | **want** | past | cloth |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cloth *not said here* | somebody |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | cloth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **stand** | past | cloth |  |  |  |  | with regard; to cloth's office | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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.

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