--- title: ‘I will send my old and honoured minister to the weavers,’ thought t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I will send my old and honoured minister to the weavers,’ thought the Emperor. Who acts: I. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/17/) [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/) / 17 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 17 ‘I will send my old and honoured minister to the weavers,’ thought the Emperor. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, think · **To what, where:** old minister, weavers, Emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I), 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:pg640:6:17 # text = ‘I will send my old and honoured minister to the weavers,’ thought the Emperor. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 honoured honoured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | future | I | my old minister | | the weavers | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to weaver=Destination | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | the Emperor | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent emperor=Attribute clause=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/18/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/)