--- title: ‘Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?’ asked the two impostors, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?’ asked the two impostors, and they pointed to and described the splendid material which was not there. Who acts: weaving, beautiful piece, impostors, splendid material. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/39/) [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/) / 39 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 39 ‘Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?’ asked the two impostors, and they pointed to and described the splendid material which was not there. **Who acts:** weaving, beautiful piece, impostors, splendid material · **What happens:** not be, ask, point, describe · **To what, where:** beautiful piece, two impostors, splendid material 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 (weaving, beautiful piece, impostors, splendid material), 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:pg640:6:39 # text = ‘Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?’ asked the two impostors, and they pointed to and described the splendid material which was not there. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 impostors impostor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pointed point VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 19 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | weaving | a beautiful piece | | | | of cloth | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a beautiful piece | the two impostors | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent impostor=Recipient | | 3 | **point** | past | impostors *= impostor* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **describe** | past | impostors *= impostor* *not said here* | the splendid material | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | the splendid material | | | | | there *property* | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/40/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). 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