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title: The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving. Who acts: impostors. 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.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 35

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The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving.

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**Who acts:** impostors · **What happens:** want, use, weave · **To what, where:** more money, weaving

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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 (impostors), 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:pg640:6:35
# text = The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impostors	impostor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	weaving	weaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the impostors | more money and more silk |  |  | now |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the impostors *not said here* |  |  | impostors's weaving |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weave** |  | impostors *= impostor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom weaving «act transitive»: poss=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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