--- title: He had a coat for every hour of the day; and just as they say of a k… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had a coat for every hour of the day; and just as they say of a king, ‘He is in the council-chamber,’ they always said here, ‘The Emperor is in the wardrobe.’ Who acts: He, clothes, king, Emperor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) And --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/3/) [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/) / 3 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 3 He had a coat for every hour of the day; and just as they say of a king, ‘He is in the council-chamber,’ they always said here, ‘The Emperor is in the wardrobe.’ **Who acts:** He, clothes, king, Emperor · **What happens:** have, say, be · **To what, where:** coat, council chamber, wardrobe · **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 (He, clothes, king, Emperor), 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:pg640:6:3 # text = He had a coat for every hour of the day; and just as they say of a king, ‘He is in the council-chamber,’ they always said here, ‘The Emperor is in the wardrobe.’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 wardrobe wardrobe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | He | a coat | | | for every hour of the day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | clothes | | | | | of a king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | king | | | the council chamber | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | clothes | | | here | | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the Emperor | | | the wardrobe | | | tree rules | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/4/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/)